How about a gcc Code generator for IBM 370 ?

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From: Ben Galewsky
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1993 09:06

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I find myself dealing with more and more legacy systems and code on our  
mainframe system in London. Each time I need something, or try to  
interface with the system I wish I could just port some of my favorite  
tools over there (or perhaps even perl) and life would be much easier.

I was wondering if anyone has played around with writing a code generator  
for IBM 370 assembly. Code generation seems like it would be fairly easy,  
since the IBM has about the most CISCy instruction set you could ask for.

Obviously, OS/370 is not UNIX so the standard I/O libraries would be all  
but useless.

Still, this seems quite do-able

Anybody out there done this?

Any thoughts on pitfalls/problems/features??

Thanks

	Ben Galewsky

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