> No this is not the next proposal for a C-compiler.
> I was just wondering how the compiler is made.

Get hold of the 'dragon book' (Aho-Ullman-...)

> teh company i work for has a processor of which they
> cannot make a c compiler just because it has no
> Orthogonal Instruction Set.

Most existing compilers are based on certain assumptions about the traget
architecture. Re-targeting such a compiler to a target that does not satisfy
those assumptions is impractical (too costly). This is the reason noone has
yet re-targeted GCC to the (14 and 12 bit) PICs.

Building a compiler from scratch is also a BIG project.

So they might be right, although 'cannot' should be read as 'it is too
expensive'.

Wouter

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