alt Hacker NewsYou want to know what kinds of programs it can run, right?
Look at this one:
https://gist.github.com/alganet/1513d7b6abef5c1a53a324d897c3...
shell.c is a shell interpreter written for c89cc.sh. It can do the full self-hosting ouroboros:
- c89cc.sh can compile shell.c
- compiled shell.c via c89cc.sh can run c89cc.sh
It's not a full blown battle tested shell interpreter yet, but I'm working on it.
This file is part of the bootstrapping setup I'm working on for very early (pre tinyc) bootstrap from source in x64 machines and it is by far the most complicated program c89cc.sh can compile.
Thanks, that actually look like a very solid baseline to start things with. Are you aware of onramp[1]? They use a custom VM to base compiler and shell on, it's extra steps, but could be more flexible long term.
[1] https://github.com/ludocode/onramp