Tue 2003-08-12 07:16, Jasen Betts (3:640/1042) wrote to Bill Birrell:

 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,

 JB> what's your taget platform?

 JB> TC-2.01 is small (about 2 megabytes) but 8086/dos only and not C-99.

And not even C90, since it came out in 1988.

Bill, if you want to head in that direction you might want to download
Turbo C++ 1.01 from http://community.borland.com/museum/.  It was released
in February 1991 and requires about 5 Mb to install.

These days I'd discourage anyone to learn C in a DOS environment just
because there's basically no memory protection when your program runs amok,
eg. a buffer overrun in your program could easily lock your machine even if
you're running the program in a DOS Window under Win9x/ME (on the other
hand WinNT/2K/XP are almost bulletproof in this regard).

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