[scoutt]

> Seems archaic today ... run in mere kilobytes of RAM

There is an entire industry that does pretty much that... today. They might run in flash instead of RAM, but still, a few kilobytes.

Probably there are more embedded devices out there than PCs. PIC, AVR, MSP, ARM, custom archs. There might be one of those right now under your hand, in that thing you use to move the cursor.

[krisoft]

> There is an entire industry that does pretty much that... today.

Which industry runs C compilers on embeded devices? Because that is what the part you elipsised out was talking about.

[scoutt]

Oh... yes. You are right. My bad.

[sitzkrieg]

many do tho. i have targetted c89 and maybe c99 on several embedded devices

[vlovich123]

They cross compile. No one is compiling code on these machines.

[0xffff2]

But you're running the compiler on the device rather than cross-compile?

[Narishma]

I doubt you're running C compilers on those devices.