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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