> On Sep 23, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Jay Jaeger <cu...@charter.net> wrote:
>
> On 9/23/2015 9:10 AM, Mouse wrote:
>>> I am 100% certain, for example, that it would be possible to come up
>>> with a C compiler for a 40K IBM 1410, which is in the set you
>>> describe.
>>
>> Possible? Sure. But it would be difficult; you would need to simulate
>> a binary machine - C has a whole bunch of stuff that is defined to
>> operate "as if" certain things are stored in binary.
Worse yet, two's complement binary. At least nowadays. Which makes me suspect
that there had to be some shortcuts taken when C was implemented on the CDC
6000 series.
(Interestingly enough, if you ignore that little detail, it isn't terribly hard
to write the skeleton of a 6000 code generator back-end for GCC...)
paul
