Re: EU easy to port
Mathew,
I fully support any efforts to bring about a 'platform-independent' EU. As
I stated before, I am having to do a major programming job in 'C', just
because we have to do it from the ground up, and the programmers I have
hired want to do it in 'C' because that is what they are most comfortable
with. But if I could do it in EU I would much prefer it!!! The target CPU
we are pushing towards is the Hitachi Super-H 4 (SH-4), soon to become the
Super-H 5 (an extremely powerful 128 bit RISC chip). All of this aside, if
there were a way to 'MIMIC', at the interpreter lever, EU so that it could
be compiled as plain-jane, non-frilly, non OO (except when wanted in the
normal sense that it is in EU now), regular old 'C', then I would be more
than half of the way to where I want to be. And so would a bunch of other
people.
Go for it. I will be watching and perhaps helping if I can, because it is
in the best interests of everyone to have EU available on more than just
the Intel/Wintel and Linux platforms. The point here is that if the
instructions were made 'transparent' enough to fool a 'C' compiler, then
the rest is open to normal hacks.
Regards and encouragement,
Norm
ps. How would you implement 'Pointers'?
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