Beta testers needed - C to Java byte-code compiler/IDE

[napi]

We are inviting beta testers for our MPC (Multi Platform C)
compiler/IDE. MPC compiles C programs and generate Java byte-code.
This allows users to develop platform independent software without
having to learn or use the Java programming language. The C language
implemented is a large subset of ANSI C (1989).

Currently the compiler/IDE only works on the Linux platform but we
intend to port it to other platforms in the near future.

Hardware Requirements :
-Any x86 compatible personal computer/workstation.
-64MB RAM

Software Requirements :
-Linux operating system (any distribution) running kernel 2.4 or above
-Java SDK 1.5. Either from Sun or Blackdown.
-Java GNOME 2.6

If you are interested please send an email to (e-mail address removed). All your
email addresses will be kept private and will be used within this company only.

Thank you.

Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah
email: (e-mail address removed) or (e-mail address removed)
fax: +603-8656-7827
website: http://www.axiomsol.com

 

[QuantumG]

Can we have details on what subset of c89 you've implemented? I wrote
a jvm backend for GCC back in '98 and the result was extremely poor
performance of output. The big problems if I remember correctly were:

* implementing pointers sensibly is hard
* the JVM's lack of unsigned types makes compiling C code with
unsigned types in it very inefficient (you need to boost all those
unsigned 32 bit types to signed 64 bit ones to get anywhere)
* doing a sensible class division is hard, so you end up with a
few large classes instead of a lot of small classes, and the JVM isn't
optimised for this.

Of course, if you're changing the JVM in any way or making your own
JIT that is closely tied to patterns in your code generation then
you're just cheating