Re: [DotGNU]Internet C++

[Rhys Weatherley]

Soeren Sandmann wrote:

> Yes, it will be very hard, but what if the frontend was strongly
> typed, like Java or C#?  Then "by luck" there shouldn't be any type
> problems in the generated code.

It's not quite that simple.  To generate the final IL
for a strongly-typed front-end, it is necessary for
the back-end to know the type of every value and
the definition of every class.  This information is
lost when the parse tree is turned into RTL, as
far as I can tell from the gcc code.  This seems to
be why gcj uses a separate code generator for Java
rather than an RTL back-end.

Cheers,

Rhys.