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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: C compiler for HP48SX
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Date: 25 Jun 91 22:31:42 GMT
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In a posting of [25 Jun 91 06:45:45 GMT]
   veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:

 > I wonder whether the first idea which one to use was the "monster"
 > GCC. Only because it's free?

No, because it generates small and fast code.

 > But what about the "small-c" compiler.

   The compiler may be small, but the code is at least 8 times larger
and correspondingly slower, than what GCC would generate. Small-C
appeared in Dr. Dobb's (where I originally typed it in from for
8080/Z80) with the explicit statement that it was intended to be read,
not used.

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu