C compilers.

[dan at Paragon.COM (Dan Demus)]

      Riddle me this.  X plus C > 8M ?

   Ah. So your point isn't that you want a non-ANSI compiler. It's that
   you want a SMALL compiler.

      I`ve heard tell of systems that could run a compiler in 2M without
      virutal memory support.  Of course it wasn`t gcc.

   Well, you could chose not to run X. Linux does support virtual
   consoles. gcc isn't the ONLY source of bloat, you know.

   Personally, I'd throw money at the problem and upgrade to 16MB. This
   unfortunately presumes that you've *got* the money...

Well how much hardware does a person buy in a lifetime?   Diversity?

Personally I`d like to run MGR with a small compiler.  The trouble is
that no one develops applications for this window system.  I`m a Motif
developer so I need X.  If there was a light weight X server for MGR,
it would make MGR a more realistic environment.

What would be nice is if there was a way to run the compile and have
it display its output on a console VT whilst writting the data to a
pipe that would deliver the errors to emacs.  In this way we could see
the errors scroll by on the VT without thrashing the system.  Also
they would be available to emacs via next-error for us lazy folk.

I know I`ve seen a program that will run your program on a console VT.
Does anyone have any experience with it?  Perhaps /proc/#/fd/# married
with this program would facilitate the piping solution.


		--Dan Demus.

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