Re: New GCC compiler for 8086 cpu's
Juan Perez-Sanchez <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:53:12 -0500
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No. GCC is huge and ELKS is tiny. It's impossible to fit GCC in elks. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/06/17 01:08, Juan Perez-Sanchez wrote: >> >> For those interested, Mentor announced a GCC back end for 8086 family of >> cpu's. >> See the link: >> >> >> https://blogs.mentor.com/embedded/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-sourcery-codebench-lite-for-ia16/ >> >> Following the links there you can reach the page for download. >> This seems to be a development based on ia16-gcc previously mentioned >> in this list, but using a newer version of GCC and all rough edges >> rounded. >> >> I used this compiler to build the ELKS kernel. The kernel produced >> appears to work fine. The compiler is very fast and produces a smaller >> kernel. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in >> the body of a message to [email protected] >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > Does it recurse? ie can you build it so it works on ELKS? > > Tom >