OpenEuphoria

Re: Palm Pilot porting

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> May 31, 2004
• 824 views

>From: Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Re: Palm Pilot porting
>Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:35:27 +0200
>
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>Concerning the low-level routines, I also think so.
>
>But how is it possible that a Euphoria interpreter, written in Euphoria,
>runs on a platform, where it is the first Euphoria programm at all? 
>

  It is not quite completely that way. Yes, there is an Euphoria-interpreter 
written in Euphoria, but that is only one of the programs. There is also one 
Euphoria program that translates to bytecodes. The bytecodes are then 
interpreted by a C program. All that is needed is to translate the C program 
to another platform. The bytecodes of the Euphoria-to-bytecode version can 
be run on that new C program to give you a complete Euphoria interpreter.

>I think the Euphoria interpreter must be translated by the Eu-to-C
>translator beforehand. But in order to create a translated program that
>will run on the new platform, I think the translator must be adapted
>first. So maybe tweaking the translator will be the clue for porting
>Euphoria to other platforms in the future?
>
>Regards,
>    Juergen
>