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Star War Sex Parrot
Oct 2, 2003

compilers was a neat class I guess

maybe I'll take another one

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Star War Sex Parrot
Oct 2, 2003

JewKiller 3000 posted:

you didn't answer my hard question so here's another easy one: to compile a compiler, do you need a compiler compiler? if so, how do you compile the compiler compiler?
with a compiler

Star War Sex Parrot
Oct 2, 2003

rjmccall posted:

i386 is just really old and passes all arguments on the stack
You're talking specifically IA32, yeah? x86-64 changed that, I thought. First 6 arguments are in registers and 7+ on the stack

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