-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans wrote: [...] > Another suggestion is to use ACK. This has the added advantage that we > can target different microcontroller/processors something which might > boost the popularity of ELKS. David Given is working on (or has > completed? ) resurrecting this compiler. See > http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-8086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/1939852.html > for a trail of old messages. Still going; it's a slow, tedious process. I'm currently rewriting the build system from scratch to make it, like, actually maintainable. This has, unfortunately, require writing a build tool to do it! It tends to move on in fits and starts as I gain/lose interest. However, the version on the website with the old build system (http://tack.sf.net) *does* build and run on Linux. The only trouble with it is that it doesn't know how to produce ELKS binaries, so someone would have to write a binary format converter to do that (and produce an ELKS syscall library). This wouldn't be much work, seeing as how ELKS uses Minix binaries which the ACK does know how to make, but would still need someone to actually do it... volunteers? (The ACK will, if you ask it to, compile Fortran, Pascal, K&R C, ANSI C, Occam, Basic and Modula 2 for any platform it supports; so if someone *were* to do that, you suddenly gain a whole bunch of new supported languages.) - -- +- David Given --McQ-+ "If you're up against someone more intelligent | dg@xxxxxxxxxxx | than you are, do something insane and let him think | (dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) | himself to death." --- Pyanfar Chanur +- www.cowlark.com --+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEWmCwf9E0noFvlzgRAjEBAJ9y+BfNLz8HfHTo/z4E4R8Nn0n/3wCgikzW RmWuznGhr8wvoOdzuJSSn0Y= =5P8l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
