[Writing] An article about Nikita

Let's write an article about Nikita's life and his activism for encyclopedia dramatica
it'll be his birthday present

>>40
Original C compiler had no optimization and everything worked fine.

>>41
https://web.archive.org/web/20000301171134/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html
A second, less noticeable, but astonishing peculiarity is the space allocation: temporary storage is allocated that deliberately overwrites the beginning of the program, smashing its initialization code to save space.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000301171134/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html

There are four tables specifying how to compile an expression to a register, to compile only for side effects, to compile only to test condition codes, and to compile to push on the stack (used for function arguments, or for temporaries). They were saved only with the "last1120c" compiler; the tables for the later one would have been similar.

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>>44
Segmentation Fault