C# Compiler

[torial]

Thought this might be of interest:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archi ... sses.aspx'

Does Cobra make this many passes?

[Charles]

Cobra makes 11 passes. As with the C# compiler, not all aspects of a program are necessarily visited in a given pass.

You can examine Cobra\Source\Phases for a list of the phases. Some (all?) have doc strings describing them. You can also run "cobra -v" which will cause (among other output) each phase to name itself as it runs.

Note that because Cobra uses C# as a back-end it can be lazy about some things. We don't bother with IL generation since it's not clear there would be any advantage over Microsoft or Novell C#'s high quality IL generation.