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C-- is an intermediate language designed to be emitted by compilers. C-- is intended to play the role that's usually played by either the C programming language or machine-specific assembly language in modern compilers. The language's syntax borrows heavily from C. Hence, the name of the language employs C's unary destructive decrement operator to show that it's almost a subset of C. This is analogous to the way in which C++ is almost a superset of C. The language is designed as an intermediate language to mediate between high-level compiler tools and low-level optimisers. It omits or changes standard C features such as variadic functions, pointer syntax, and aspects of C's type system. These features are left out of C-- or present in modified form because they hamper certain essential features of C-- (such as tail-call optimisation) and the ease with which code-generation tools can produce it.
C-- is a target platform for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and will eventually become the main platform. Some of C--'s developers, including Simon Peyton Jones, also work on GHC. The codebase and development are based at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, though it isn't a Microsoft project.

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