Language for byte-code-compiling?

I am working on a compiler (translator) project for my own programming
language, and I want to split the compiler into a front end (language ->
byte code) and a back end (byte-code -> C, Asm or interpreted). I would
like to know a good idea for the intermediate language, which should be
easy to translate into C with good optimization.


Usual stack languages (e.g. Emacs Lisp byte code compiler) are easy, but I
think it is rather difficult to translate the byte code to C with good
optimization (because C is not a postfix language).


Thanks in advance,


    -cmz-


Christopher Michael Zach
Stolletzweg 6
A-8435 Wagna
++43 3452/6260
E-Mail: cmzach@sztma.tu-graz.ac.at
[The classic Ritchie PDP-11 compiler was two passes. The first pass turned
C into postfix, and the second pass turned postfix into assembler. It's
easy for a back end to read in the postfix and create a tree on which
optimizations can be performed. -John]
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