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mihaic on May 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

That is insane, congrats.

I would have wished some explanation on where the function calls like vga_init and vga_set_pixel come from, I'm not a graybeard yet.

tomsmeding on May 25, 2023 [–]

They're from the runtime, which is just concatenated with the program to be run: https://github.com/xorvoid/sectorc/blob/main/rt/lib.c

xorvoid on May 25, 2023 | [–]

Yup. See “rt/lib.c” A bunch of inline machine code. The assembly mnemonics are in the comments.

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