Ram initialization and small c.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Feb 14 13:55:00 CET 2003


Ian Castle <ian.castle at coldcomfortfarm.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > Years ago when C was young and implementations were not readily
> > available people compilers for subsets of C and called then small C
> > compilers.
> > 
> 
> Not sure if this is of any use/relevance, but mention of Small-C brought
> back some distant memories... On my bookshelf I have a copy of :
> 
> The Small-C Handbook
> James E. Hendrix
> 1984
> 
> It has the source of the small-c compiler in it. It is targeted at the
> 8080 though. The source is only a thousand or so lines of C. Can't see
> any sign of a licence though..

I think I have seen it as shareware type license...

With the small size you can see why I find it attractive to just write
a compiler...

Eric




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