Maybe interesting in this context, a language called 'C--' was developed last year to serve as a portable assembly language with garbage collection. It was intended mostly for compilers of functional programming languages (many fp compilers generate regular C code). Here's a link (yes, at microsoft!)
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Maybe interesting in this context, a language called 'C--' was developed last year to serve as a portable assembly language with garbage collection. It was intended mostly for compilers of functional programming languages (many fp compilers generate regular C code). Here's a link (yes, at microsoft!)