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From: chase@Ozona.orc.olivetti.com (David Chase)
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Subject: Re: Software Distribution
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Date: 26 Aug 88 17:17:34 GMT
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In article <1347@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> dick@ucsfccb.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) writes:
>Do I really understand correctly that this Stallman product accomplishes
>the hitherto unrealistic UNiversal Computer Oriented Language (UNCOL)??

RTL isn't a UNCOL, no.  RTL (as realized in the Gnu C compiler)
contains all sorts of hard-coded register assignments (R15 is my SP)
and calling conventions (my stack grows thataway).  I'm afraid these
make it rather non-universal.

If you are interested in this sort of thing, you might check out
papers by Fraser and Davidson in the compiler construction conferences
of 1988, 1986, and 1984.

David