>
> Anyone try out the free Borland C compiler in Linux yet? Good
> ole bcc?
>
> Let me know if you have, and if it compiles the kernel at all. I
> doubt it will though. The kernel has a lot of gccisms.
>
It will not. Since 1991 Linus has made clear that the kernel was
written having in mind Gcc extensions. In paqrticular kernel has lots
of inline assembler and this uses a Gcc specific sysntax.
Now it would be interesting if someone benchmarked code generated by
Borland's compiler aginst code generated by Gcc. I suggest Nbench as
a testing board.
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Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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