W-Code

Agreed.  Which is why the Compiler Writer Kit has many parts, one of
which is the W-code interface.  You would not, for instance, want your
compiler data management and debug interface to be limited/impacted by
the characteristics of your intermediate language (such as C in your
example).  You would really want to be able to define your own
language environment.

Bruce

>
>...                                  If I were to be writing a compiler I
>would not want to have to write it in something that generated C/C++ which
>then generates and intermediate form and finally gets compiled into
>executable form... I would want to go direct to the intermediate form (
>which I would think W-Code is) and then make the executable.
>


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