Re: Starting a JIT backend for Ravi yet again

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

Hi Eric,

On 11 September 2017 at 00:32, Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com> wrote:
> On 10-Sep-17 1:45 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>>
>> So now I am doing just that. The new backend is being written to
>> generate C code,
>
> But there are already several projects that do that:
>
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaToCee
>
> What am I missing?
>

Couple of things really.

Firstly C is just being used as the "assembler", as it is just more
convenient to transform from C into the final code.

Secondly the translation is not to a bunch of Lua api calls. I would
suggest to have a close look at the example C output I showed, in
particular how the for loop is handled.

Regards
Dibyendu