Re: [cc65] Problems solved with linked lists.

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From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2004-01-01 13:16:36 

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:53:11PM -0800, Payton Byrd wrote:
> Is there any chance of the compiler becoming
> self-hosting so that it can run on a real CBM system?

Unfortunately not. The compiler is too big to fit into the memory of a 6502
machine. The Linux executable has a size of 187KB, and it uses the dynamically
linked C library, so the real size is even larger.

The original Atari compiler had a stripped down version that run on an Atari,
but this was accomplished by writing several parts of the compiler in
assembler, and by removing compiler features. Since then, a lot of things have
been added, so the compiler size has increased a lot.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz_at_musoftware.de
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