From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Oct 21 02:12:28 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] Compiling with gcc: ld eats all ram From: Evan Langlois To: Miro Kropacek Cc: Mint list In-Reply-To: <43575D24.3090909@hysteria.sk> References: <43566F18.9000405@shaw.ca> <1129738352.24801.6.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <20051019183017.0d614e89.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> <43575D24.3090909@hysteria.sk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:09:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1129853355.25585.6.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - esc14.midphase.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - fishpool.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - CoolRunningConcepts.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: Evan@CoolRunningConcepts.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Spam-Level: ** On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:02 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote: > I think you're too unfair to gcc - it's true it takes more memory than > pure c :) but simple hello world is compilable. Try to decrease harddisk > cache to minimum and compile it in console, not under XaAES/N.AES. I > coded even more complicated programs with 14 MB falcon in this way. Considering my mail reader is currently using 166MB of memory, GCC isn't all that much of a hog by comparison. If anyone with a lot of C experience wants to tackle porting a compiler, the TCC compiler uses very little memory and compiles about 12 times faster than GCC. Its so fast you can actually use C as a script language and use "#!/usr/bin/tcc -run" at the top of your C file to compile and run it in one step .. or link your program with libtcc and you can compile C from plain strings in your own programs, allowing you to use C as embedded scripting language! There's even a Linux bootloader available that will compile your whole kernel using TCC on the fly as you boot (allowing systems to insert/remove options based on hardware detection). TCC is much easier to port than GCC, but of course, there is a lot of Atari specific stuff you'd have to mess with. Its designed to be largely compatible with GCC, so options and object files should be compatible. -- Evan