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recently (which is already significantly out of date, largely thanks to David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
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