Re: bcc under ELKS?

[Alan Cox]

> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > The big problem isn't so much the binary, but the amount of RAM it needs
> > > at runtime.  From memory, it chews up several hundred k of ram.
> > 
> > Time to write some swapping code
> 
> Swapping isn't the whole issue here.  The excessive memory use is.

Swapping makes most of it go away :)

For bcc1 you'd need to try it with the optimiser. The old minix ack compiler
could get bcc1 compiled into under 64K of code.