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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 96 20:54:24
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : But then the problem is a different one. Nobody needs to recompile
- : arbitrary programs. You just need to recompile the limited set of
- : programs generated by todays programming languages.
-
- These languages can generate arbitrary algorithms (limited by the finite size
- of the machine), although the exact _form_ of those algorithms will be
- influenced by the compiler. Added to that, optimisers (human or machine) will
- alter the form of the algorithms significantly.
-
- : And then it is
- : not trivial but still easy to decipher the output of a particular
- : compiler.
-
- Presuming that you can reliably determine which compiler was actually used, if
- indeed the same compiler or even language was used for all parts of that
- program.
-
- -- Mat.
-