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  3. May 2003

Re: VARPG Codegen (was threading in rpg)

Steve Richter wrote: 
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?

W-Code models a very low-level machine. W-Code was designed to make things easier for compilers, and not for programmers. Implementing a W-Code to C translator would make no sense whatsoever.

Also, how could you possibly have a W-Code to Linux translator? Linux is an operating system kernel, not a machine architecture, and has been ported to many different CPU's. W-Code is completely O/S independent.

Cheers! Hans



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