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No, I mean it's pointless because I think there are very few use cases for it. You're pretty much limited to libraries which do not rely on any OS-specific call
by jey 19y ago
No, I mean it's pointless because I think there are very few use cases for it. You're pretty much limited to libraries which do not rely on any OS-specific calls or which only do very generic OS-calls like file I/O.
FWIW, I'm the author of GCC-CIL, which provides a backend to GCC to emit .NET bytecode, and I still don't see the point. I mean, what are you going to recompile for flash or .NET? BLAS and LINPACK? :P At least with .NET you have access to libc and other native code libraries via P/Invoke, but you don't even get that from flash...
- jcl 19y agoAh, I wasn't sure what you meant. I agree that there aren't too many use cases. Personally, I think some of the existing computational geometry libraries could be useful, but I am thinking of a niche set of applications. More useful, perhaps, might be existing libraries to read/write file formats. But I'd be surprised if there was anyone looking to port their huge C++ application wholesale to Flash.