OpenEuphoria

Re: Palm Pilot porting

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jun 01, 2004
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Elliott wrote:

>> From: Juergen Luethje
>> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:35:27 +0200
>>
> <snip>
>> 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.

Ah, I see. So with Euphoria 2.5, there actually will be *less* C code
that must be translated to a new platform, compared to versions prior to
2.5, right?

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Regards,
   Juergen