Re: 64-bit extensions

[acken@informatik.uni-kl.de]

> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:40:28 +0200
> From: Tim Teulings <tim@edge.ping.de>
> 
> > > At this point, I'd actually be more interested in a backend that
> > > produced Juice slim binaries.  Has anyone looked into what the
> > > barriers to such a thing would be?
> > 
> > This would be next to impossible with OOC.  The Juice slim binaries
> > are actually little more than compressed compiler syntax trees.  OOC
> > discards all this information long before the back-end ever gets
> > called.
> 
> Hmm, that would be verry sad. Can I have a statement from our
> ooc-specialists about that?

It's a waste of time to try to create a Oberon-2 syntax tree from GSA
code.  On the other hand I'm quite surprised that slim binaries are
just syntax trees...

-- mva