Andi Kleen wrote:
>> A lot of that code (although, of course, not all) could be written in C,
>> though. I'm thinking of taking a stab at rewriting it that way.
>
> That would require a new compiler, right? I don't think that would
> make users very happy.
>
> Besides the code is not exactly that maintenance intensive and only
> changes rarely so I don't need a pressing need to rewrite it
No, it would not need a new compiler. All it requires is gcc plus a
reasonably recent binutils which you need anyway.
-hpa
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