On Jan 28, 2011 11:05 AM, "Marc Feeley" <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
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> On 2011-01-27, at 2:42 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:42:31PM -0500, Marc Feeley wrote:
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>>> On 2011-01-26, at 6:38 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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>>>> Does that x86 back end generate code directly into memory, augmenting
>>>> the running system? Or does it generate code into a file that has to be
>>>> executed from the OS?
>>>
>>> The back-end includes an assembler which can output the machine code to a byte vector or a file. In the tests I have done the code was generated into memory and executed without accessing the filesystem.
>>
>> Great! That's what I was hoping for. I've been tinkering with some
>> similar stuff, but without using a nice language to write the code
>> generator in (I used C/C++) and was just realising I needed a better
>> notation for expressing the code generation patterns -- A better
>> notation such as that available in Scheme. I was trying to be
>> source-language-agnostic.
>>
>> Any chance I could have a look at your code, and possibly repurpose it?
>
> I'm currently doing a major refactoring of the code, so this is a bad moment to share the code with you. Can you wait a few weeks?
>
> Marc
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