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I was reading these days the Symbolics C manual to find some details about the compiler's output. I know that the hw had assembly instructions that mapped almos
by crististm 12y ago
I was reading these days the Symbolics C manual to find some details about the compiler's output. I know that the hw had assembly instructions that mapped almost one-to-one to Lisp primitives. However, what was the output of the C compiler and how did they integrate it with the Lisp code? For that matter, what was the output of the Pascal or ADA compilers?
In one of K. Reti's videos there's a blend of stack traces of Lisp and C code. What makes that possible?
- lispm 12y ago> I know that the hw had assembly instructions that mapped almost one-to-one to Lisp primitives. In my example you see the assembly. You can see how much 'one-to-one' it was... The C compiler compiled to Lisp and then to machine code. Same for Pascal. For Ada, I don't know.
- DonHopkins 12y agoI once visited a Washington DC Beltway Bandit government contractor's office who had a Symbolics Lisp Machine that they used exclusively to develop Fortran code, which they compiled into Lisp and debugged with the awesome programming tools. And of course there was Gyro's Zeta-C compiler, with an interactive C listener.
- mietek 12y agoArtefacts of a future past…