Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques?

From	gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques?
Date	2021-10-17 15:01 -0700
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On Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 11:27:23 AM UTC-7, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:

(snip on compilers generating assembly source code.)

> I meant the final executable result is (can be) generated from source
> code by a single C compiler invocation. How this result is obtained in
> detail, in how many passes, by how many related tools, is not so obvious
> and of less interest to the user.

Unix tradition, and still supported by gcc, is to stop after generating the
assembly source file, with the -S option.

Some compilers allow mixing assembly code in with the source language.
Seeing the combined result makes it easier to debug.  (Or edit the
generated file before sending it to the assembler.)

Many compilers that don't write an assemblable output file, will generate
a pseudo-assembly listing.  Enough to figure out what the generated code
does, but usually nowhere close to input to an assembler.

I mostly learned OS/360 assembly language reading the generated
code listings from the Fortran compilers.
[The code from Fortran G was putrid, but from Fortran H and its successors pretty impressive. -John]

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Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2021-10-11 13:26 +0000
  Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Kartik Agaram <ak@akkartik.com> - 2021-10-11 11:23 -0700
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-12 20:05 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-10-16 17:16 +0000
      Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-10-16 20:22 +0000
      Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-16 23:55 +0200
        Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-17 07:02 +0200
          Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2021-10-17 15:01 -0700
  Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? "Detlef Meyer-Eltz" <Meyer-Eltz@t-online.de> - 2021-10-12 11:34 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? jan van katwijk <j.vankatwijk@gmail.com> - 2021-10-12 17:59 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-12 20:19 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2021-10-14 00:33 +0300
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-10-16 17:26 +0000
      Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2021-10-17 08:37 -0700

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