From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: New language
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:26:39 -0600
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>* The language supports all target environments, not only 32/64-bit
>machines/VMs with 8-bit words being addressed. This means it can handle
>all possible addressing widths (linear addr. space), all possible word
>widths, and big and little endianness. Also, the language supports
>unsigned and signed integer types of any bit-length. The same for the
>fixed and floating point type. I looked at the ELF, COFF and OMF object
>formats, but none of them seems to satisfy the language's needs. Does
>anyone know a object format that's capable of doing all this stuff ? Or
>do I have to make a new object format ?


you might look at MMURTL, which is an interesting "learning" operating
system.  The author of this OS takes the same approach, after a degree,
meaning that there are no object modules.  what he basically does is have a
file that lists all the neccessary source files (kind of like a makefile,
but not really) then the compiler goes through and checks to see if the code
is assembler or C.  if it's C it gets compiled into assembler, then all the
assembler code is linked together in one big file and sent to the assembler.
it is output directly as an executable.

i don't have my book here with me, so i don't remember the web page address.

    -={C}=-