On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Leif K-Brooks wrote: > But if it was capable of compiling any C extension module, it would have > to be a full-fledged (large!) C compiler. Not if it eschews most/all optimizations, obscure GCC/MSVC extensions, full-blown assembler/linker, etc. It's quite possible to make a small C compiler (tinycc (http://www.tinycc.org/) comes to mind...).