Re: A92: C in calc, I like this idea


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Re: A92: C in calc, I like this idea






Rafael Humberto Padilla Velazquez wrote:
> 
> Hi, I like the idea of have a C in the calc.
> 
> is it useless? I don't think so,
> 
> I remember that Turbo Pascal is some like
> 70k whit all the enviroment, so a little compiler
> for C will take near of this size.
> 
> besides only need that the compiler traslate to
> assembler because we have AS92, that is assembler and
> linker.

Actually, it probably would be a better idea to make the compiler
output machine code directly.  Having to generate an intermediate
assembly source file would use a huge amount of memory.  The
assembly source is often 10 times the size of the executable, or
more.


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