Is it REALLY so strange?

Posted Jan 29, 2009 0:07 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Is it REALLY so strange? by khim
Parent article: The new GCC runtime library exemption

for DBASE by understanding was that the 'binary' just embedded the entire DBASE interpreter in the resulting binary.

that's not how a compiler is supposed to work.

Is it REALLY so strange?

Posted Jan 29, 2009 0:57 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hah. It was more extreme even than that, IIRC. The Clipper 'compiler' at
least worked by compiling the program to bytecode and then simply
appending the bytecode to a 180Kb-or-so interpreter-and-database-engine.
(Despite that, the linker was astonishingly slow. I have no clue what it
was doing: given that it was linking the same binary every time, I'm not
even sure why they *needed* a linker.)