From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: Porting c/c++ to gaming consoles...
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:31:50 +0100, "Thomas Harte"
<T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com DOT KILL_PART> wrote:

>>C would never work on NES, which only has 2 KB of RAM and an 8-bit
>>6502 processor.  NES is normally programmed in assembly language:
>>  http://pineight.8m.com/nes.htm
>
>
>But the ROM segments can be paged into processor address space, so
>used for programs (although the 6502 still only has a 16bit address
>space), and there was, a long time ago - like 1985, a 'small C'
>compiler going around which was a cut down version of K&R for 6502s.

It seems to have been upgraded to near-ISO capability:
  http://www.cc65.org/
And the compiler can be built with DJGPP with one change to DJGPP
libc.  Has Nate's patch to open a tmpfile() in BINARY mode made it
into the official DJGPP libc?

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