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Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by chrismcdonald » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

Such a great post- https://www.completeconnection.ca/trending-mobile-phone-apps...

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by boomskats » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 10:21 PM UTC

Selfie, hypster, mipster, monster... these names are great.

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by rcgorton » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 11:25 PM UTC

What drivel. Make an artificial language which nobody uses, with a target architecture=X. Post it pretending that it is relevant. I Call BS on OP

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by amasad » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

This is such a cool educational tool! I got it to run on repl.it https://repl.it/@amasad/selfie

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by jng » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 11:38 PM UTC

Beautiful, beautiful project. Containing the deepest twists of computation in a single file, and not a single #include. I only missed it including a text editor. Love it!

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by topoyiyo » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 11:53 PM UTC

msla wrote: post #10

The C subset it compiles is called C* but it appears unrelated to the language of the same name created for the Connection Machine hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C*

At least it's not mosdef C =P

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by CodiePetersen » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

No boolean operators?! That's an odd choice.

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by lboasso » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 2:15 AM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #4

Koshkin wrote: post #3

I think Oberon would be a better candidate for this than C. You could get a tiny and extremely fast compiler for a full-featured programming language.

I'm looking into self-hosting compilers, is there a good link for Oberons code that achieves this? Or you just are mentioning that Oberon would probably be able to if one were implemented?

You might be interested in oberonc [0] an oberon-07 self-hosting compiler for the JVM.

[0] https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by microcolonel » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 2:17 AM UTC

topoyiyo wrote: post #16

msla wrote: post #10

The C subset it compiles is called C* but it appears unrelated to the language of the same name created for the Connection Machine hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C*

At least it's not mosdef C =P

Still doesn't shine a candle to Holy C.

Re: Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor

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Post by sitkack » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 2:45 AM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #3

I think Oberon would be a better candidate for this than C. You could get a tiny and extremely fast compiler for a full-featured programming language.

Funny because Selfie reminds me of a maximally compact version of http://www.projectoberon.com/