[bitc-dev] bug in character decode routines

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

I know C-- was rejected as a backend; I wonder if LLVM was evaluated:

http://llvm.org/

It even provides an LLVM IR to C translator.

Yes, we looked. Decided the learning curve would take too long. In particular, there were complexities in dealing with GC, and we didn't want to lose the time to figure them out.

LLVM really wants you to have an optimzer. We didn't ant to have to build that for a prototype system.

shap