On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:21:39PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 01), Jean-Marc Lienher said: > > After a (too?) quick look at the FreeBSD source code, I've seen that > > the GNU compiler toolchain was used to compile the kernel and other > > part of the OS. > > > > I would like to know if there is another compiler toolchain (C > > compiler, assembler and linker) which is able to build the i386 > > FreeBSD and which is released under the BSD, MIT or any other > > non-viral license ? > > Luckily gcc's license doesn't apply to the executables it generates :) > > > I've found some other compilers on the web: > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ (LGPL) > > tcc is very fast, probably has the most modern C parser of the lot, and > might even be able to build world except that the shared binaries it > generates aren't able to be loaded by our rtld. It looks like tcc only > emits the bare minimum to get Linux to run the executable, and I don't > know enough about the ELF format to fill in the blanks.
afaik tendra doesnt support gnu C extensions and our srcs are full of it so the only possible compilers ATM are gcc and icc _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
