Re: Alternative compilers to GCC/Clang
Amy Parker <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Feb 2021 11:11:32 -0800
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 8:26 AM Amy Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > > It compiles extremely fast, implements some subsets of gcc (a few > > attributes for example), but is far from being able to compile a kernel > > Well, we'll see what I can do with that. :) Well, just installed it and tried building the kernel. Fails every file. :) It's definitely something to work towards - but I don't know if kernel advancements requiring newer GCC versions will go slow enough to allow TCC improvements to arise. This isn't just something like with Clang where a few tweaks to files and to Clang itself did the trick.