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Re: Why 3 different evaluators?
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: Why 3 different evaluators? |
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Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:48:58 +0100 |
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On Wed 16 Nov 2011 11:17, address@hidden writes:
>> If I bootstrap Guile-X from GCC, I have to trust GCC.
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> And the code for this C evaluator that's almost used nowhere thus
> probably much less tested than the rest of Guile.
On the contrary, it is used to interpret the entire compiler, when
compiling eval.go. It runs on every system that builds Guile. Also it
is very simple, and uses the same algorithm as eval.scm.
Andy
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