On-topic: alternate Python implementations

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Am 04.08.2012 15:53, schrieb Stefan Behnel:
> So, if a C++ compiler takes a .c file and compiles it with C language
> semantics, it doesn't qualify as a C compiler? That implies a rather weird
> definition of a C compiler, I'd say.

I'd say that even a brainfuck compiler compiling a .py file with C 
language semantics can shamelessly call itself a C compiler. :P

If a C++ compiler is given C code, it may or may not produce equivalent 
executables. In most non-trivial cases it will just barf on the valid C 
/ invalid C++ code and refuse to compile it. In few rare cases, it will 
compile the code and produce different behaviour at runtime (e.g. for 
"sizeof 'a'").


Uli