[TUHS] Memory management in Dennis Ritchie's C Compiler

Jim Geist velocityboy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 01:27:52 AEST 2020


Do you have a link to the V10 compiler source?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:21 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile at majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a project to revive the C compiler from V7/V10.
> > I wanted to check if anyone here knows about the memory management in
> > the compiler (c0 only for now). I am trying to migrate the memory
> > management to malloc/free but I am struggling to understand exactly
> > how memory is being managed.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Dibyendu
>
> There already is a project that revived PCC, probably starting
> with the one in 4BSD.
>
>         http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/
>
> I have a git mirror, just to make things easier for access through
> firewalls:
>
>         https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/pcc-revived
>
> Starting from the V10 compiler would be interesting. It was not available
> when the above project was started.
>
> HTH,
>
> Arnold
>
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