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Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target?
Date 2014-05-28 09:19 -0700
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Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> writes:
> This seems to be saying that a stack machine may well have PICK - but
> only if it's implemented with a "hack".  Which is quite different from
> "Once you have PICK it's no longer really a stack machine."

The "hack" implementation is BECAUSE the stack machine doesn't have
PICK, so you simulate it in software.  We would similarly say the AVR8
doesn't have IEEE floating point arithmetic.  That means the hardware
doesn't implement it.  It doesn't mean you can't simulate it.

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If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? nachtmann@gmail.com - 2014-05-26 14:44 -0700
  Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-26 14:51 -0700
    Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? nachtmann@gmail.com - 2014-05-27 11:25 -0700
      Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-27 18:43 -0700
        Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-05-28 01:41 -0700
          Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-28 01:56 -0700
            Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-05-28 14:56 +0200
              Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-28 09:19 -0700
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-05-28 18:56 +0200
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-28 10:14 -0700
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-05-28 19:33 +0200
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-28 11:00 -0700
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-05-29 12:45 +0000
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-29 12:02 -0700
                Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? nachtmann@gmail.com - 2014-05-29 18:50 -0700
  Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-05-28 09:55 +0000
  Re: If Emscripten can translate C/C++ via LLVM into JavaScript, could it be possible to use Forth as a compiler target? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-05-31 15:06 +0000

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