[antlr-interest] Writing a new backend for v3

Luke A. Guest laguest at archangeli.demon.co.uk
Fri May 11 11:46:37 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:30 -0700, Terence Parr wrote:
> > I can't believe that there is no information on how to start a new
> > backend.
> 
> Yeah, I was hoping a target developer would keep some notes ;)
> 
> Basically, you have to copy the closest target templates and then  
> alter them to conform to new target language.  Then you need to mimic  
> the runtime library.  Getting some doc on that now.
> 
> Which language?

Ada95, 2005 isn't quite ready in GNAT, interfaces just kill the
compiler.

Luke.




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