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From: | Paulo Henrique Torrens |
Subject: | Re: [Tinycc-devel] compile TCC without another compiler |
Date: | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:30:58 +0000 |
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:11:40 +0100
> From: address@hidden > To: address@hidden > Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] compile TCC without another compiler > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:10:45 +0530 > harish badrinath <address@hidden> wrote: > > > I know this is bit of a OT question, but is it possible to compile TCC > > or any other C compiler, without any another C compiler. > > > > Suppose i have a system with busybox and a bunch of symlinks, how do i > > really (as in, in the literal sense of the word) bootstrap my system. > > You dont... unless you are a hard core masochist :-) > > You would have to write a C compiler and linker in assembler first. > Of course, assuming you have an assembler available. > > What do you want to acheive? If it's just a theoretical question > on how this has been done before there were compilers? Then you should > read books on old computer systems and computer history from the 50s and 60s. > If you want to run tcc on an embedded system, then cross compile it on > your PC. > > Attila Kinali > > -- > The trouble with you, Shev, is you don't say anything until you've saved > up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments and then you dump > them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap > -- Tirin, The Dispossessed, U. Le Guin > > _______________________________________________ > Tinycc-devel mailing list > address@hidden > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel I am such a masochist! *-* How about this T-diagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-diagram)? +-------------+ | C ASM | +----+ +----+----------------+ | C | C Shellscript | +---+---+ +---+ | Shellscript | +-------------+ Yeah, I mean, a c-to-shellscript (c2sh?) compiler written in shellscript... worth trying it! |
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