This is the mail archive of the
gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Minimum OS required to build GCC
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: tom <tompotts at madtom1999 dot bbmax dot co dot uk>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:46:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: Minimum OS required to build GCC
- References: <520DC6B2 dot 9040703 at madtom1999 dot bbmax dot co dot uk>
On 08/16/2013 07:29 AM, tom wrote:
> This may be a bit of a daft question but I'm wondering what the minimum
> requirements for an OS to run GCC:
> I'm getting a parallella board and it seems sort of logical to try and
> use it to do compiles as well. I used to run GCC on a 4MByte 386 so it
> seems feasible.
It's been a while since I looked, and I don't think anyone really knows.
GCC is much fatter than it used to be: for example, we parse everything
into trees and keep all of them around during compilation. So, I'm
pretty sure that running GCC in a few megabytes isn't going to work.
Andrew.