It does'nt make sense, if it's like what u said, how is the os compiled in the first place?Originally posted by Imperito
An OS can only be compiled by a compiler written on that OS. Conversely, a compiler can only be written on an OS compiled by that compiler.
>>It does'nt make sense, if it's like what u said, how is the os compiled in the first place?
simple:
First, print out yor code. Doesn't matter if it's 500 pages . . . . .
Its the chicken and the egg all over again.
Which came first, the OS or the PC?
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Egg.
Its basic evolution.
Birds decended from reptiles.
Reptiles laied eggs.
Therefore egg before chicken.
How about monotremes(?)?
"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
George Best
"If you are going through hell....keep going."
Winston Churchill
Well working with the assumption that all tetrapods came from Devonian lobe-finned fish and the lack of any contradicting theories or evidence (except creationism), I think egg wins again.
What about the easter egg and the Easter bunny?
"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars......the rest I squandered."
George Best
"If you are going through hell....keep going."
Winston Churchill
How do u compile once you printed out?
Seriously, pls help, i really want to know the theory.
thnx
Well the egg is a symbol of rebirth at easter so has its origins way back with jesus. The easter bunny is some marketing gimic that i doubt goes back much further than the 50's. Egg wins again.
And i do remember someone on this board saying that microsoft have thier own special compiler for windows. (that information is atleast second or third hand by now so don't flame me when you come up with conclusive evidance proving otherwise)
I am talking about as in general. Say if i wrote an OS using C and assembly. Now, what do i do to compile it and actually use it? I believe thats a straight question when it's asked in general terms.
http://www.osdev.org/developers/guide01/index.html
There's a guide to mixing C and Assembly to compile an operating system. They suggest using gcc.
It mainly just includes compiling them both into object code and linking them as a final step.
In theory, just about any c++ compiler could be used, provided you specify for it not to play with your code.
Hi thnx,
SO basically i'll write the code in any os and then compiling it using maybe gcc. What will be the output? Will it have any special file extensions? DO i thne copy the whole thing on disk or burn on cd so it'll load up when i reboot the comp or somethin?
thnx
> The first was thumbs up and down where down mean kill and up meant mercy.
I don't know about your second method, but I believe the reason thumbs down meant to kill was that thrusting the thumb in a downward motion was an imitation of thrusting the sword into the prone foe. Or so I've heard.
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Well, I think they were handcoding. You know, hex things and DEBUG (not MS's, an handcoded DEBUG) which they used for the first HexEditor, which produced the first Interpreter which saved on tape the first 10 commands... But hey, this is ancient history (don't remember if greek of roman). Compiling is a very modern thing, you know, must be mid 80's, or closer.Originally posted by Nutshell
It does'nt make sense, if it's like what u said, how is the os compiled in the first place?
BTW, they should us computer history! Which one computed the length of a circle?
There was a first programmer which came with the ideea (was not even the programmer-he invented the job), and did a lot of work, like God, did it from nothing!
I might be wrong about hex. First computer was an 8 bit data bus?
OS vs compiler. Tonight, on...
Now I C.
>What will be the output?<
A file. The format is what you decide on, though the most common are flat binary, COFF and ELF.
>Will it have any special file extensions?<
The file can be of any extension, as in all reality file extensions don't mean anything.
>DO i thne copy the whole thing on disk or burn on cd so it'll load up when i reboot the comp or somethin?<
Depends how your bootloader is set up. If it can read from a FAT disk, you could just copy it over. This all really depends on your bootloader though.
