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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: GCC compiler
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Date: 30 Jun 89 11:28:08 GMT
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In article <NELSON.89Jun28225658@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
}Sure, you could get [GCC] to *run* on MS-LOSS, but you would have trouble
}getting it to generate code for anything less than a 80386...

You'd have a little :-) trouble running a 1M+ executable under MSDOS....
On our VAX here, GCC's passes are 100K (CPP), 1.2M (CC), 200K (AS), and
73K (LD).  Even given that C code compiled for an 8086 tends to be about 10%
smaller than the same program compiled on a VAX, we're still talking over a
megabyte for the compiler proper.  GNU programs also tend to assume that they
can grab megabytes of memory....
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