[squeak-dev] A Bootstrap Compiler

Nikolay Suslov nsuslovi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 13:47:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Nikolay Suslov <nsuslovi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thinking, that nobody here will argue about image-side compiler and it's
> > capabilities.. etc.
> >
> > But, Yoshiki is talking about, that you could "generate a growable image
> > file from all
> > text files, or make deep changes to the system without shooting
> yourself".
> > And this is really awesome and so long waited step!
>
> Well, you do need a C compiler, presumably in the form of an
> executable binary.


Yes, of course, and C compiler is available anywhere!.. then for
bootstrapping the image you will just need sources in a text form..


> And if you're going to grant special dispensation
> to an "external tool" implemented in C, why not to an external tool
> implemented in Smalltalk?
>
>
sure, may be eventually this "external tool" could be bootstrapped by Ian's
COLA...  also just from "all text files", needing in a C compiler on the
first stages only.


Best regards,
Nikolay


> That said, bravo, Yoshiki! This is a great project.
>
> Colin
>
>
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