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Old 14th April 2011
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
Actually this is correct, & I can vouch that one commercial i386 compiler did just this. Front-end problems were completely divorced from code generation issues.
I own and read the dragon book...but I've never written a compiler, so my information is all theory and no practice... it's good to know that the theory matches reality (if even only sometimes) heh

I've actually considered digging into the PCC code and seeing what I can do to help it along...but I rarely have time for side projects =\
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