RE: VARPG Codegen (was threading in rpg)

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From: rpg400-l-bounces+srichter=autocoder.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+srichter=autocoder.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:39 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: VARPG Codegen (was threading in rpg)


 >> so VARPG probably compiles the rpg code, captures the w-code, then
translates the W-Code back to C code and compiles it on the pc?
 >> If so, is that all IBM proprietary?

>I don't believe there is any conversion to C - why bother?  IBM has a
w-code
>to windows executable translator just as it has for iSeries.

well, just for the sake of being argumentative and the advancement of
technical knowledge, if you translate from w-code up to C, then that C code
can run on any platform that provides a C compiler.  ( os400 runtime
requirements excluded of course ).  For example, how does the w-code to
windows executable translated code behave in the .NET managed world?   Does
IBM have to now allocate scarce resources to write a w-code to CLR managed
code translator?  Is there a w-code to Linux executable translator also?

-Steve