Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!cica!iuvax!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!mmdf From: lcc!dana@seas.ucla.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: GNU cc, etc. Message-ID: <21712@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 89 04:14:52 GMT Lines: 13 Though I haven't looked at it myself yet, an associate of mine recently compiled gcc, once with another compiler, another time with gcc (the self-compiling bootstrap). He sez gcc doesn't use temporary files. It uses gobs of virtual memory. Keep this in mind - a 386 Minix supporting this compiler will have to provide useful virtual memory. Dana H. Myers | "These are experimental tires from Locus Computing Corp. | Sandoz labs. I could run them up to Inglewood, CA | a hundred PSI" lcc.dana@seas.ucla.edu