On Wednesday 09 May 2007 4:23 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > arch/foo almost always supports a single compiler too - gcc. We simply > don't support anything else. We use gcc inlines and features extensively. > > And who cares about such fine detail of C99, did they fix the struct copy > bug in ANSI C even ? [1]
Um, I've picked up the tinycc baton (in my copious free time) and am slowly trying to get it to build a bootable linux kernel. There's a ways to go, and I really have no idea what I'm doing, but I have help and even made a release recently (which is already significantly out of date, largely thanks to David Wheeler): http://landley.net/code/tinycc/ Admittedly, a lot of this involves implementing gcc extensions, but gratuitous use of them when there's a perfectly good c99 way of doing it isn't necessarily a plus. Fabrice got it as far as tccboot before QEMU ate his life, we've improved a bit since then, and there's presumably a finite amount of work left to be done... Rob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
