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Thanks! Do you mean MIT Scheme's C backend? I've used MIT Scheme on and off for a long time and have never touched the C backend & have no idea how it works,

by kkylin 1y ago

Thanks! Do you mean MIT Scheme's C backend? I've used MIT Scheme on and off for a long time and have never touched the C backend & have no idea how it works, so this is interesting. (MIT Scheme also has a native code compiler for Intel CPUs, which seems to be what most users of MIT Scheme (an admittedly small community) actually use.)

glouwbug 1y ago
If you'd like to define the backend like this, it's the easiest way to compile to C; we're just repurposing C as a general-purpose assembler: https://glouw.com/2023/11/07/Switch.html https://glouw.com/2023/11/07/Switch.html I believe MIT-scheme took it a step further with gnu extensions which allowed you to take the address of a label like &&label, which allowed for function pointers: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html