Bill Birrell wrote in a message to Roger Scudder:

 BB> To get back on topic is there an ANSI C compiler that doesn't need 
 BB> umpteen gigabytes of disk space? GNU is fine when you have a 40 GB 
 BB> hard disk, but this PC has only 3, and the OS and its bits and 
 BB> pieces take up much of that. At present I have to compile on the 
 BB> laptop!!!!

What platform are you running on?  I originally installed Slackware on a 1G
HD and had plenty of room to compile stuff after I'd installed darn near
everything.  This was Slack 4.0,  the newer stuff is somewhat bigger,  and
eats more of a 1G drive than it used to (I'm sitting at something like 93%
full now).

Whatever it is you're running there must be one heck of a HD space pig if
3G won't cut it.  OTOH,  additional drive space is real cheap in the used
market these days.  I was talking to a guy earlier this evening who had two
computers,  both P120,  with 2G in one,  3G in the other,  and he'd only
paid $25-30 for the whole system in each case!

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