[pypy-dev] Research with PyPy Translation Toolchain

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Adam R. Smith <smith195 at illinois.edu> wrote:
> I am a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois. I am interested in
> learning more about how to use the PyPy Translation Toolchain as part of a
> research project. We would like to write some code in Python and generate C
> code from that. When using the Translation Toolchain, a *.c source file is
> generated and then compiled with GCC. How do I find where the source files
> are stored before GCC is called? I want to interface with those *.c files.
>
> Adam Smith
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hi Adam

Note that PyPy translation toolchain does not compile Python. It
compiles RPython, which is a restricted subset of Python. However, we
have a Python interpreter written in rPython.