Squeak -> Objective-C translation
Kevin Fisher
kfisher at rim.net
Wed Apr 7 17:10:39 UTC 1999
Hi:
Forgive me if this is a dumb question but....will your translator allow me to,
say, make a program in Smalltalk and then translate it directly to Obj-C, or is
it just for VM generation?
Still, it sounds cool...
On 07-Apr-99 Marcel Weiher wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've finally started work on a version of the C-Translator capable
> of producing Objective-C. There are several applications I am
> targeting: (1) using Squeak to develop/prototype Objective-C code
> (2a) using Objective-C as an intermediate plug-in language that is
> semantically closer (2b) translating larger portions of Squeak libs
> to dynamically bound native code and (3) making VM/Interpreter code
> OO to allow for better integration, easier experimentation and
> multiple interpreters.
>
> I couldn't see a way to easily subclass the CCodeGenerator, so I've
> been page-faulting code into a new extensible code-generator based on
> FilterStreams that will then support subclasses for both Objective-C
> and plain C generation. As far as I can tell, these should take
> less space than the current C-generation support due to some
> refactorings and the FilterStream savings.
>
>
> Marcel
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