romcc progress.

[Eric W. Biederman]

John van Vlaanderen <john-at-thinman at nyc.rr.com> writes:

> Haha, I thought so,
> 
> Eric wrote:
> > I have used it enough at this point I don't want to live without it
> > again.
> 
> I did spend the better part of last night reading the thread, though
> that got to the why but not how.
> 
> Uses registers, not stacks -- like the Perl6 Parrot VM, I am going to
> have to tell them :)

Actually quite a bit different.

Parrot will just not use stack oriented byte codes.   But a call/return
stack will still be required.  romcc does not use a call/return stack,
but romcc still implement subroutines.

Eric