Re: Questions about Bytecode

Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com>
26 Apr 2007 09:33:46 -0400

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From: Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 26 Apr 2007 09:33:46 -0400
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
References: 07-04-061 07-04-079
Keywords: VM, interpreter
Posted-Date: 26 Apr 2007 09:33:46 EDT

>>How would the typical structure of a bytecode-compiled file look?
>
> Why put the stuff in a file at all? Why not use the source code as
> on-disk representation and just compile to memory?
>
> In any case, if you want to have bytecode files, its structure is
> usually a serialized version of the in-memory representation. In one
> case I just used XDR routines to convert between the in the in-memory
> representation and the file format; a modern, but bloated equivalent
> would be to use XML as external representation.


If I were generating bytecode, I'd pick one which already as a VM to
interpret it, if possible. That is, Java or c# bytecode.



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