Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 04:27:08 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TenDRA/XANDF to the rescue? (Re: Fix for undefined...) Message-ID: <19980601042708.54610@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199806010122.VAA25839@rtfm.ziplink.net>; from Mikhail Teterin on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 09:22:02PM -0400 References: <199805312213.PAA16988@usr06.primenet.com> <199806010122.VAA25839@rtfm.ziplink.net>
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On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 09:22:02PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Terry Lambert once stated: > > =I agree that at some point you are going to lose backward compatability; > =I think, however, that XANDF will push this off, since most of the > =historical compatability issues can be resolved by regenerating the > =assembly code, and relinking, which is implied. > > Well, what's wrong with plain C-code, for example? Just because it > is source and is easier to reverse engineer? Theoreticly, C must > be as crossplatform as XANDF or whatnot. C is more limited in it's expressiveness. It is bad as an intermediate format for other languages because metadata is lost (which limit the optimization possibilities). > Ok, how about Java byte code? java byte code can't express e.g. C. This also answer the rest of your post (which I've deleted). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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