[vox-tech] Compiling C into Java bytecode?

[Rod Roark]

Well then let's consider my comment to refer to C as it
was defined by Kernighan and Ritchie.  If they don't count
any more, I give up.

-- Rod

On Monday 30 June 2003 11:29 am, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:37:15AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> > On Monday 30 June 2003 10:07 am, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:27:08PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 29 June 2003 02:06 pm, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > > > > Second, their
> > > > > standard libraries have very different names for most things (even
> > > > > something so simple as the sine function has two different
> > > > > incompatible lines to call it in the two different languages - in c
> > > > > it's sin() , and in java it's Math.sine() ). So I can't even
> > > > > copy/paste strictly mathematical functions between the two
> > > > > languages.
> > > >
> > > > Technically, libraries are not part of the language.
> > >
> > > Not from the standpoint of your typical language spec (at least for
> > > C). The C standard specifies the standard library as part of the
> > > language; though I seem to recall that C++ seperates them more
> > > distinctly in the language.
> >
> > Do you have a reference for that?  I always thought that
> > language by definition does not include libraries.  Perhaps
> > the standard you are referring to covers more than just the
> > language.
>
> The usual reference the first sentence of the first paragraph of the
> first section ("Scope") of the standard, which states:
>
>   This International Standard specifies the form and establishes the
>   interpretation of programs written in the C programming language.
>
> Yet, this standard provides a clause detailing all standard C library
> facilities. It is generally accepted among comp.lang.c regulars that
> the standard C library is part of the language itself, according to
> the language of the standard.
>
> For corroborations from respected regulars of comp.lang.c, including
> Dan Pop, who while sometimes rather rude has the reputation of
> near-inscrutability in issues regarding the C language and standard
> (pick arguments with him at your own risk: he tends to fight dirty,
> and he's nearly always right); and Chris Torek, responsible for
> writing huge portions of the FreeBSD C and system libraries:
>
>  
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9606231913.AA17433%40ues5.cern.ch&rnum
>=1
>
>  
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=97i9i0%242f3%241%40elf.bsdi.com&rnum=1
>
>  
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=885344571snz%40genesis.demon.co.uk&rnu
>m=58
>
> -Micah