Re: Microsoft Intermediate Language?

"David Griffiths" <dave@prim.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> Hi, does anyone know where there is a definition of Microsoft's
> Intermediate Language (MSIL)? Does anyone have any views as to it's
> suitability as a general purpose compiler intermediate language?


Given it hasn't been released yet, who knows? You may find some
information at MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/


I _do_ know that it was designed to support C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, Cobol,
Perl, Fortran and many other languages (Eiffel, Microsoft Research are
producing a version of Standard ML). Therefore I would anticipate that it
is a lower level IL than Java bytecode, which is fairly closely tied to the
Java programming language. There is some talk that it will support some
form of generics, although C++ templates aren't currently supported in the
Visual Studio 7 beta.[1]


HTH,
--
Mike Dimmick


[1] A friend of mine has Beta 1 installed at home; I can't do this because I
need a reliable development platform for my final year undergraduate
project.

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