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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:26:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
To: Philip Herron <herron.philip@googlemail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Philip Herron
<herron.philip@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, i've been working on this basically on my own 95% of the compiler=
 is all my code, in my spare time. Its been fairly scary all of this for me=
. I personally find this as a real source of interest to really demystify c=
ompilers and really what Jit compilation really is under the hood.

So I'm curious, not having looked at your code, are you just
translating python code into C code to make your front-end to gcc?
Like converting "[1,2,3]" into a C linked-list data structure and
making 1 an int (or BigNum?)?

--=20
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington