Hello all,

I sent this to the Exupery list, but no one answered.  Maybe someone here 
knows or has some pointers to where the information is.

Thanks,
Jason


>From: "J J" <azreal1977 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Discussion about Exupery a native code 
>compiler."<exupery at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: exupery at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>Subject: Question about code generation
>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:16:53 +0000
>
>Hi list,
>
>I was just curious how Exupery is able to directly generate the machine 
>codes for a given platform.  Squeak runs on a ton of platforms, so Exupery 
>would have to have some way to know the codes for all of them.
>
>I am curious because I was wondering about generation of the Squeak VM.  
>Right now it is done with a smalltalk looking language called Slang (as you 
>all know) that just converts directly to C.  My thinking was the VM 
>generator should at a minimum be a GCC front end and possibly build the 
>executable itself (the problem with being a GCC front end is that it 
>targets C, which may not be flexible enough).  This might allow the VM to 
>do some optimizations it can't at the moment (I seem to remember that C 
>doesn't give you the information about float overflows, perhaps this might 
>be useful to a language like smalltalk that doesn't make one pick the size 
>of their numbers).
>
>I haven't looked far enough to see if this would be worthwhile, and I also 
>wonder how such a change would play with Exupery.
>
>Thanks,
>Jason

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