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.
