TinyC, port to HP

From: Ed Sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Fri Oct 10 16:34:01 2003

no the hp can have a hard drive!
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From: "ben franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: TinyC, port to HP


> J.C. Wren wrote:
> > A number of C compilers on small architectures have solved this problem
by
> > having 2, sometimes 4, distinct compiling phases, and passing data
through
> > temporary files. This gives you a lot more leeway in code space. I've
seen
> > preprocessor pass, tokenization pass, code generator pass, and in some
cases,
> > the 4th pass is the assembler (which I generally prefer over
> > direct-to-assembly, since you can insert a user-written processing phase
if
> > you want to get funky).
>
> Most of the C-compliers I have seen for 8 bit machines, tend to cross
> compile from a PC. A PC is a far different machine with 32 meg and a
> hardisk, rather than 32k and paper tape like the HP could be.
>
> > --John
> >
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