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Richard Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Friedrich Dominicus said:

Richard Heathfield <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


I fail to see how /anyone/ that - um - challenged can write a C
compiler.
How about cleaning the front of you house?

You lost me. Please make your meaning clearer.
C Unleashed chapter 11 p. 353

I fail to see how /anyone/ that - um - challenged can write a C book.

Oh, anyone can write a C book, irrespective of their level of C knowledge -
and many have. But to write a working C compiler from scratch takes real
knowledge and skill. (It has been claimed elsethread, however, that Jacob
Navia did not do this.)
Jacob has used lcc as a starting point. lcc and lcc-win32 now share
the base data structures however, we ported the compiler to some other
platforms like e.g Linux 64, some DSP and Windows 64. I doubt that lcc
is as near to C99 as lcc-win32 is. Now 10 years of constant working
with some sources obviously lead to quite different source trees.

Friedrich



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