Re: Making a C to PostScript compiler with GCC

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From: Paul Crowley
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:49

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Quoting epperly@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Tom Epperly) in article <9301262119.AA29680@osnome.che.wisc.edu>:
>I was wondering how difficult it would be to make a C to PostScript
>compiler with GCC.  Could this be done by writing a GCC machine
>description file for the PostScript language?  Can someone describe if
>this is feasible and how difficult it would be?

The resulting code would certainly run very, very slowly.  What is it
you're trying to do?
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