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In article <AJcrvcgSo6@rkb.riga.lv> ilya@rkb.riga.lv writes:
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>>The challenge : write a very small TSR program in a high level language.
>>The languages : C/C++ versus Pascal (or anything else) (no INLINE nor #ASM)
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>       One thing is not quite clear: may I modify standard compiler
>       modules (say, by reassembling c0?.obj in Turbo C)? The program
>       itself therefore will not contain inline code.

A good point!  One advantage of Pascal over C is that the Pascal is
embedded in the code and C is not (C must call standard library while
standard Pascal can expend more directly some statements like the
print (Fortran do the same).  However, I would count this as the same thing
as inline statement.

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>       Moreover, I could develop my own tiny compiler aimed solely
>       at generating the most compact TSR programs. Do contest
>       regulations permit it?

The same way, you could develop your own macros, eliminating some
verification code, or changing some call into inline statements.
The same way, this would be considered as inline statements.

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>       Ilya Ketris                              ilya@rkb.riga.lv

Just for the funny aspect of this, I get an overview of what is a
compiler complying to some specifications for testing.  Ada is like
that : once you wrote the compiler, it must perform some secret tests.
Now, suppose you know what are those tests.  Then, you would have to 
write a small program, identifying what is the program of the test
is compiled, and then generating an object file already optimized
in a very very short time.  Obviously, that compiler can only compile
the test programs, but will give the best results (smaller compilation
time, best execution speed, smaller code), but it would not be an Ada
compiler ;^)

So, you can write your pseudo-C tiny compiler for the specific purpose
of writting the smallest TSR, but this would not be a C compiler.

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