no the hp can have a hard drive!
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From: "ben franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <General Discussion :>; "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: TinyC, port to HP
J.C. Wren wrote:
> A number of C compilers on small architectures have solved this problem
by
> having 2, sometimes 4, distinct compiling phases,
and passing data
through
> temporary files. This gives you a lot more
leeway in code space. I've
seen
> preprocessor pass, tokenization pass, code
generator pass, and in some
cases,
> the 4th pass is the assembler (which I generally
prefer over
> direct-to-assembly, since you can insert a user-written processing phase
if
you want to
get funky).
Most of the C-compliers I have seen for 8 bit machines, tend to cross
compile from a PC. A PC is a far different machine with 32 meg and a
hardisk, rather than 32k and paper tape like the HP could be.
--John