oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) (07/02/85)
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I have been toying with the idea of writing as much of a C compiler
as will fit in my 64K machine. I would like to implement a minimal
subset so that I can bootstrap it up until I can't go any farther.
Does anybody care to volunteer their ideas on what I should start with?
(Unless you have an urgent need to have 100,000 people read your reply,
please send mail to me directly. Also, I don't regularly read this group,
so a posting will probably not get to me.) BTW, I have no intention of
having this thing do anything but give me something other than assembly
language or BASIC to play with, so I don't really care about fully
complying with any proposed standard.
--
- joel "vo" plutchak
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster
"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
all confusion."cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) (07/04/85)
In article <1259@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes: > I have been toying with the idea of writing as much of a C compiler >as will fit in my 64K machine If Dennis Ritchie could write one, probably you could too. Remember the PDP-11. :-) -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego {ihnp4|decvax|akgua|dcdwest|ucbvax} !sdcsvax!mplvax!cdl
johnl@ima.UUCP (07/07/85)
> /* Written 1:33 pm Jul 4, 1985 by cdl@mplvax in ima:net.lang.c */ > In article <1259@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes: > > I have been toying with the idea of writing as much of a C compiler > >as will fit in my 64K machine > If Dennis Ritchie could write one, probably you could too. Remember the > PDP-11. :-) Hey, wait a minute -- it wasn't a 64K machine, it was a 56K machine, and 24K of that was taken up by the operating system. (Take that, megabyte kernel hackers.) John Levine, ima!johnl
minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (07/09/85)
A quote attributed (perhaps incorrectly) to one of the great Wizards of C and Unix may be appropriate here: "I never document my code. If it was hard to do, it should be hard to understand." Martin Minow decvax!minow