This is my question as well, seems like a boat load more work than writing c to a file and calling gcc on it. One thing I can think of; if the language you're

This is my question as well, seems like a boat load more work than writing c to a file and calling gcc on it. One thing I can think of; if the language you're implementing has exceptions, you'd have to implement these the naive way wiht setjmp/longjmp if you target c. Supposedly if you used gcc in the way this article shows, you could use gcc to generate "real" excpetions.