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diff --git a/development/obcpl/README b/development/obcpl/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0549dd6812 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/obcpl/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +obcpl (BCPL compiler) + +This is an x86 (IA-32) port of the "classic" old BCPL compiler (around +1980) from the Tripos Research Group at Cambridge University. + +As a real, working computer language implementation, that can be studied, +modified, and played with, this old BCPL compiler has a good deal to +recommend it. The compiler frontend consists of only about 2000 lines +of BCPL code, and (as supplied here) compiles to a static (fully-linked) +x86 binary that is less than 36000 bytes in size. + +x86_64 note: obcpl doesn't require multilib on Slackware64. It only +generates 32-bit x86 code, but the binaries it creates are 100% statically +linked, and will run fine on Slackware64 without multlib. |