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Re: [MiNT] Compiling with gcc: ld eats all ram
Evan Langlois wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:02 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote:
I think you're too unfair to gcc - it's true it takes more memory than
pure c :) but simple hello world is compilable. Try to decrease harddisk
cache to minimum and compile it in console, not under XaAES/N.AES. I
coded even more complicated programs with 14 MB falcon in this way.
Considering my mail reader is currently using 166MB of memory, GCC isn't
all that much of a hog by comparison.
Think of the bandwith that is wasted while moving all this bloat
around on the internet. ;-)
If anyone with a lot of C experience wants to tackle porting a compiler,
the TCC compiler uses very little memory and compiles about 12 times
faster than GCC. Its so fast you can actually use C as a script
language and use "#!/usr/bin/tcc -run" at the top of your C file to
compile and run it in one step .. or link your program with libtcc and
you can compile C from plain strings in your own programs, allowing you
to use C as embedded scripting language! There's even a Linux
bootloader available that will compile your whole kernel using TCC on
the fly as you boot (allowing systems to insert/remove options based on
hardware detection).
That sounds more like it should be.
Plain C is by far the easiest language to compile.
The anatomy of GCC is a obstacle to new idees about
the practice of computer programming in a modern world.
TCC is much easier to port than GCC, but of course, there is a lot of
Atari specific stuff you'd have to mess with. Its designed to be
largely compatible with GCC, so options and object files should be
compatible.
Interesting.
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