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XLR: Extensible Language and Runtime The art of turning ideas into code The "Dirty Bootstrap" implementation Prev: Building the compiler Up Next: Compiler Tests The XL compiler bootstrapped in a "dirty" way: instead of generating "real" code, it currently generates relatively high-level C++ code. As such, it is dependent on C++ semantics rather than XL semantics. For instance, most name lookup, overload resolution, operator resolution, and high-level functionality such as maps or I/O are all actually performed by the C++ compiler in the back-end. The compiler also has a native mode where it tries to do semantics itself, and generate low-level code. In this mode, however, only the simplest programs compile currently. Prev: Building the compiler Up Next: Compiler Tests Copyright 2008 Christophe de Dinechin (Blog) E-mail: XL Mailing List (polluted by spam, unfortunately)