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From: "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 80386 C compiler
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:46:36 +0800
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"Janis Papanagnou" <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 24.11.2024 15:00, Paul Edwards wrote:
> >
> > I have been after a public domain C compiler for decades.
> > [...] I'm after C90 written in C90.
>
> Why formulate the latter condition if you can bootstrap?
> (Did you mean; written in a "C" not more recent than C90?)

Yes - written in C90 so that it can be maintained with
just knowledge of C90.

And also written in C90 so that it is written naturally
for a C90 programmer, not using a subset of C90
(like SubC written on the assumption that "struct"
doesn't exist).

BFN. Paul.