On Nov 26, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:On 26 November 2015 at 23:08, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com> wrote:Holy crap, that's crazy. I built it in debug mode on Linux, but I don't think it used that much. I only have 6 GB right now!
You have to remember that a C compiler is one of the largest, most complex software components that human beings have ever had to produce.The original C reference manual made it look deceptively easy, but really there's a ton of stuff going on in there, as you can see.How they ever got it going on a system with 64Kbytes of address space, I'll never know.