Re: [Tinycc-devel] OSX

[Steve Dekorte]

On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 06:16 AM, Peter "Firefly" Lund wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Steve Dekorte wrote:
> > someone could point me to exactly what code needs to change and 
> > general
> > docs needed to understand how to change it, I would research it and
>
> What compiler books do you have?
>
> The Dragon Book?   Appel's?

I don't have any compiler books.

> > give it a shot if I think I could do it without an unreasonable amount
> > of effort.
>
> Some thing you can do right away is to make tcc build cleanly on OS X 
> and
> see if it still generates the exact some output as when hosted on an 
> IA32
> platform.  You will need a port of the parts you don't rewrite, anyway 
> :)
>
> OS X is 32-bit only at the moment, isn't it?  That, and the fact that 
> OS X
> is a Unix under the hood + the fact that Fink will give you the same 
> tools
> as the rest of us use under Linux should make it a very easy first 
> step.

Ok, I'll give that a shot.

Cheers,
Steve
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