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To: NVDave

> We would need to start with a working Bliss-64 (or Bliss-32) compiler.

We would need both.

Good news is that the GEM back end can emit x86 code.

Bad news is nobody has visited that code in a long while, and most of the people who know how it works are no longer with the company.


59 posted on 04/07/2010 6:00:18 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook

That’s really the problem here, because the last time I looked at this sort of thing (ie, moving Bliss source to a new platform), a LOT of the details of the internals of Bliss aren’t documented outside DEC, and they probably were not documented inside of DEC much either. They were carried around in a few people’s heads, much like the details of some of their PDP-11 OS’s.


62 posted on 04/07/2010 6:07:16 AM PDT by NVDave
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