Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--460a16-The new C compiler is somethin/en

The new C compiler is something that I've written this year since last spring. I finally decided that I'd have to throw out PASTEL. This C compiler uses some ideas taken from PASTEL, and some ideas taken from the University of Arizona Portable Optimizer. Their interesting idea was to handle many different kinds of machines by generating simple instructions, and then combining several simple instructions into a complicated instruction when the target machine permits it. In order to do this uniformly, they represent the instructions in algebraic notation. For example, an ADD instruction might be represented like this: