Derek Kuliński wrote: > Hello Joshua, > > Saturday, August 23, 2008, 9:42:38 AM, you wrote: > > >> I think that (part of) the point is to be able to bootstrap with minimal >> tool support, and thereafter to be self-supporting. The bootstrap >> process is described better than I can in Section 6.1 of "Accessible >> Language-Based Environments of Recursive Theories", available on the >> VPRI website. C is described as a "portable high-level assembly language". >> > > Ian already wrote wrote most of the code in idst/Pepsi which is > Smalltalk-like. > Right. > Most of .c files (all? I can't find anything else, except GC which is > from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc ) for Pepsi are > generated by idc (Pepsi compiler), and they're in that form just for > bootstrapping. > You're right, I can't find any other non-generated C-bootstrap files. I recall that they used to exist (Ian obviously needed something to compile the initial Pepsi code into the .c files that are currently included in boot/), but now he apparently skips that part of the process.
Josh
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