Re: Filesystem creation

Alan Cox
2002-05-15T00:12:53Z

> image or something, that'd be all I'd want. I'm just interested in
> writing a couple short programs on the ELKS machine, then compiling them
> locally. Is that a difficult task? I have no idea what it'd take to get
> a compiler running under ELKS.

bcc can compile itself (or it could). However it creates a version of itself
a little too big to use. Bcc cross built by a dos compiler is small enough
so its demonstrably a matter of improving bcc's space optimisation until it
generates code good enough to fit itself into 64K