Hi, This is not a bad idea in itself. But you are about 10 years too late.
In a very distant past FreeDOS had a project to build a free DOS compiler. But it got forgotten when pacific c was released for free use. For us who still remember him, you could contact Steffen Kaiser about this, he should be able to tell you more and what of that project still survives. Imre >-----Original Message----- >From: Gregory Pietsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:53 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group? > >Fellow developers, > >I was wondering if anyone wanted to form a compiler-writing group with >the purpose of coming up with a C99 compiler that runs under FreeDOS. I >have some ideas as to how to get this accomplished, but would like to >have input from my fellow programmers from the start. We could pass >around code and patches off-list. > >A good design for a C99 compiler would have the following >subprograms/phases, with a master orchestrating them all: > >1. Preprocessor >2. C99-to-virtual machine language translator/semantic analyzer >3. Virtual machine language optimizer >4. Assembly code generator >5. Assembler >6. Linker/Loader > >There are free preprocessors, assemblers, and linkers available, but it >would be neat if we could write them from scratch. > >A lot of the translating can be table-driven. It can be tied to the >processor as well; for example, the code generator can output > > les ax,[bp-17] > mov dx,es > >to move a four-byte variable into the registers on a i8086, but > > mov eax,[bp-17] > >to do the same task on a i386 or newer CPU. > >The tools flex and bison can be used to produce lexical analyzers and >LALR-style parsers respectively, and both output files in C; the project >would include the C files so that those who don't have those tools can >compile the code. The tools are open-source and available from GNU. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Freedos-devel mailing list >Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
