You should ask John, but the aim was to get a minimal Hello World so there isn't a compiler for example. But surely the answer is "whatever you need to get what you want done", right?
Heh, sure... but you're not answering my question. :) I'm wondering how others have gone about deriving the complete set of classes and methods a system needs to perform a particular task (so that I can compare to how I do it). Indeed, I should ask John.
So if the goal is a microkernel from which one can bootstrap an image one needs a compiler, a file system interface, and for sanity a minimal error-reporting framework right?
Sure, but that doesn't help much with questions like "Should I include method X or not?". The necessity of several things in the system is rather subtle. :) I like to be able to point to any byte in an object memory and give a simple explanation as to why it's there, and have performed a straightforward process to get that explanation.
-C
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