Talk:C to Java byte-code compiler

I haven't seen this product myself, but I assume (I could be wrong) that it can't achieve 100% C compatability? I would think doing nasty things with pointers would be able to break such a system? Mrjeff 11:43, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Not necessarily; such a compiler would have to follow the C specifications, not emulate the behaviour of existing compilers like gcc. Many "nasty things with pointers" are specified as "undefined behaviour". You're right in that many existing applications may fail, but I'm not sure that it's impossible to emulate all of C's specification on the JVM. Wouter Lievens 09:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

This page should be renamed to Axiomatic C To Java Virtual Machine Compiler. It's not really an article on C To Java Virtual Machine Compiler*S*. I would delete it, but it's fun as a curiosity, but all the pages that link to this one make this look like shamless spam (not to mention that, well, translation C to JVM doesn't seem like a very good idea)

bad title
I would expect it is possible to compile C code to run on JVMs, though I don't see why one would want to do that, other than because they can, but the code which runs on JVM is called "Java byte-code" AFAIK. So the sane title of this page would be C to Java byte-code compiler, in which also the conventional singular is used. --MarSch 09:43, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * is there any reason not to merge to Java Virtual Machine? --MarSch 18:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)