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Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> writes:

> Are there fundamental reasons for not re-using the gcc backends for native
> code generation? I'm thinking of the (im?)possibility to convert the cps to
> some of the intermediate languages of gcc.

Also there is llvm.  If there are issues, they may be different.