You could translate to either Lisp or raw instructions for the Lisp machine, but it doesn't really matter. The main thing that you do differently from a normal

You could translate to either Lisp or raw instructions for the Lisp machine, but it doesn't really matter. The main thing that you do differently from a normal C compiler is translate pointers into pairs of a buffer and an index into the buffer. Then pointer arithmetic still works as far as it is required to work by the C spec.