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Subject: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!)
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Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> >TenDRA is a "quad" compiler; it compiles to a quad tree, and then
> >you post-process that into a particular assembly language using a
> >back-end.
> 
> You are talking nonesense.  Please get your facts straight before
> actually throwing forth what you consider to be the truth in that
> imaginative little head of yours.
> 
> Please see http://www.tendra.org/ and everything underneath it in terms
> of documentation and facts.

OK... The C++ producer internally compiles to TDF, which is a
variant of [X]ANDF, according to the documentation, which, if
you look at the definitions in the Aho "Compiler Design" book
qualifies as compiling to a quad tree as an intermediate.