64bit data 128Bit address...Re: Building a Z-80 (64bit!!!)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sat Oct 24 23:35:08 1998

"Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <spc_at_armigeron.com> wrote:
> What the heck are you compiling that requires over 500M of RAM during the
> compilation step? Netscape? I can't even conceive of something that large.

I have a C source file that was generated by automatic translation from a
big pile of assembly code for another processor. It ends up having one C
function containing several *thousand* basic blocks.

This only takes a few minutes and a few megabytes to compile if I turn the
optimizer off. But with optimization enabled...

Eric
Received on Sat Oct 24 1998 - 23:35:08 BST