Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Commentary/Compiler/Backends

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01/16/12 18:15:18 (16 months ago)
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    1212These backends are completely interchangeable.  Our preferred route is the native code generator.  The C code generator is used for portable, non-optimised, or unregisterised compilation. 
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    14 It is likely that only the native code generator will be able to generate position independent code (PIC) which is necessary for dynamic libraries, so once we're doing this the C code generator will be even more deprecated.