Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler

It's always a delight to read about your projects, Oscar. Every program is a jewel.

how does a debug file output 8GB+? Is it running for minutes/hours? Or is it in a format that uses a lot of rich text? I would assume a text file in hex or unicode wouldn't use very much.. Is there a way to create intervals of log files so they have a cap on the size?

• nanochess · 3 hours ago

  It is a simple debugger log in the transputer emulator (enabled by compilation option) which outputs each instruction executed so far, around 70 bytes per line displaying the 3 registers, the stack pointer, the instruction pointer, and the disassembled instruction. The emulated C compiler processed a whole file ccvars.c before getting stuck in ccinter.c (this is the 5gb mark, approximately 78 millions of instructions executed). I stopped the process as soon as I saw it was stuck, but the emulator is fast, and I got extra 3 gb in the log. All this happened in less than two minutes.

  • vanderZwan · 2 hours ago

    Another reminder of how easy it is to forget how ridiculously fast computers are these days (especially when you're like me and not writing stuff close to the metal for your day job).