Re: Is Assembler Language essential in compiler construction?

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From: ArarghMail902@Arargh.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:30:49 -0600
Organization: Ripco Communications Inc.
References: 09-02-021 09-02-025 09-02-031 09-02-038 09-02-048
Keywords: C, debug
Posted-Date: 14 Feb 2009 16:56:05 EST

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:11:56 +0000 (UTC), Marco van de Voort
<marcov@stack.nl> wrote:


>On 2009-02-11, Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>>Then, to implement certain features of your language might involve
>>>using casting and other tricks in the generated C when it's datatypes,
>>>and using a lot of gotos and labels when it's syntax.
>>>
>>>Then you make the discovery that you can use casting and gotos for
>>>nearly *all* your language constructs, meaning most features of C are
>>>not needed
>>
>> Yes, C is a little too high-level for that job, but it's still the
>> best portable assembly language we have. One can work around most of
>> these issues as you point out, though.
>
>(to all the people that might have tried C as backend):
>
>How do you insert debug metadata on the HLL level into your binary in such
>setup ? It seems to me your debuginfo will contain C linenumbers, typedata
>etc. IOW, how do you debug in your HLL this way?


I presume "#file" & "#Line"
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