> From: Robert Feldt <feldt at ce.chalmers.se>

> How complex is the translation? Is it like a Smalltalk-to-C compiler 
> preserving some or most of the Smalltalk semantics or is it more like C 
> written in a Smalltalk syntax?

It is the latter, called 'Slang'.

Slang maps message sends to function calls, ignoring the receiver  
and thus also removing polymorphism.

(Almost) all variables are treated as 32 bit integers, which are  
sometimes used as integers, sometimes as pointers.

Marcel