evaluating math w/o recompile
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Sep 17 14:21:57 AEST 1989
In article <225800223 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>You can't. There is no way that line of math can be *executed* without
>>compiling it (in a very broad sense of the word), so trying to do it with
>>no recompiles is futile. Either you invoke the C compiler, or you write
>>a mini-compiler as part of your program...
>
>Or, if you need to do it once or only a couple of times, write
>an interpreter. An interpreter can be written in portable C.
>A compiler, of course, can't. You have to know the machine code.
You are assuming a very narrow definition of "compiler". Note the phrase
"in a very broad sense of the word". Not all translators referred to
as "compilers" generate machine code.
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