Shlomi Fish
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:26:54 -0700
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Kohn Emil Dan wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Re: Re: syscalltrack
>developers meeting":
> > Just for curiosity, does anyone anyone know a machine without gcc on it?
> > OK, besides Sinclair Spectrum and C64 ;-)
>
> Amusingly, I did have a C compiler on my C64, in 1985 :) You couldn't do
> much with about 40K of ram, but it was a fully capable compiler, linker,
> and C library. It was a commercial compiler, not free software.
>
> I doubt the gcc project and the Commodore 64 ever walked the earth at
> the same time. It's like those idiotic "prehistoric" cartoons showing a
> cavemen with a dinosaur - these two creatures never saw one another.
>
I think gcc can easily generate code for the Commodore 64. I know it can
for HP 48, and this is a calculator. It reminds that a friend of mine
decided to write a Pascal compiler for HP 48, while knowing that gcc could
produce code for it. When I talked to him some time later, and heard that
gcc was ported there, I tould him that it had a Pascal front-end - gpc. He
naturally told me that he would have been happy to hear about it a
priori. He said his compiler did not work from some reason, but was in
fairly complete shape.
He also said he would not use Lex or Yacc, so he can have some fun writing
code of his own. ;-)
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
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