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| Actually, how big the executable is depends on the compiler. I don't do C, but, in other compilers this is the case. For instance, Turbo BASIC would produce a 47Kb executable of "hello world" because it links a library of subroutines that for the (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That is partly the compiler and partly the linker and partly the idiot that put it togeter. Personally, I would be leary of generating a direct BIOS call in the generated code, but then I would avoid BASIC anyway. Even putting the actual (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Simply enough, it DOESN'T take an awful lot of computer resource to program the RCX. You could write a very simple single target (h8) c compiler for it that would be quite small. However building a cross target binutils and egcs compiler for ANY (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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