From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <69275011-637E-4D0C-9E17-2F0CF1B93503@gmail.com> References: <877fl6ronj.fsf@rudra.copyninja.info> <835ECE9E-472C-448D-8125-67BBACB09752@gmail.com> <69275011-637E-4D0C-9E17-2F0CF1B93503@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 23:21:54 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114b2a522fcafc052579d7a4 Subject: Re: [9fans] Compiling ken-cc on Linux Topicbox-Message-UUID: 78a6ae46-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a114b2a522fcafc052579d7a4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 26 November 2015 at 23:08, Ryan Gonzalez 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. --001a114b2a522fcafc052579d7a4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= 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 addre= ss space, I'll never know.
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