Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 11/06/2024 17:02, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 11.06.2024 um 11:13 schrieb Malcolm McLean:
 

I've finally got Baby X (not the resource compiler, the Windows toolkit) to link X11 on my Mac. And I can start work on it again. But it was far from easyt to get it to link.
Can friendly people plesse dowload it and see if it compiles on other platforms?

 For large files it would be more convenient to have an .obj-output in
the proper format for Windows or Linux. I implemented a binary file to
char-array compiler myself and for lage files the compilation time was
totally intolerable and all the compilers I tested (g++, clang++, MSVC)
ran into out of memory conditiond sooner or later, depending on the
size of the char array.

A char array initialised a byte at a time?
That is going to be inefficient.
Instead of a large array like {65, 65, 66 ...} try instead generating a single string like:
    "\101\102\103..."
    "\x41\x42\x43..."
Or maybe numbers of shorter strings with a few dozen values per line.
Each string should be represented internally by the compiler as a single object occupying one byte per element, instead of dozens or even hundreds of bytes per element.