Re:Modern C
by lebuffon on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:03AM
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Ummm.. Is that the language? Sounds like the preamble in the code generator. The equivalent Forth VM is just a handful of instructions also but one would not say that's the language.
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The C startup routines are not part of the language, but you can think of them as the bridge between your actual machine and a state that matches the C abstract machine. (For a virtual machine this might be two memsets-one to the registers and one to memory.)