> If you want to do an 8086 C compiler, I'd strongly recommend looking at > LLVM --- it's apparently got a really nice backend model, although the > documentation isn't brilliant. Better still, it may be possible to start > with the excellent 386 backend and cut it down, which should be a much > easier job than building one from scratch. Also has going for it that it's got lots of optimization muscle and opens up other languages besides C (and does C pretty well). The project is active. Should be able to compile itself but is a complex piece of software and running it natively on a low speed target would probably require an uninterruptable power supply, to say nothing of compiling itself on a low speed target or the memory requirements it would entail. > - the ACK: has the advantage of being a complete turnkey toolchain and > compiler, including assembler, linker, librarian, libc, etc, *and* it > already supports the 8086, but doesn't produce great code and is tough > to work on. Minix uses this, probably is more complete than SDCC from first glance. > - tcc: very very very fast. Produces very very very crap code. It > started life as an IOCCC entry, and boy does it show. Interestingly enough, it's complete enough to compile a linux kernel and the blazing speed (and probably low memory requirements) might make it suitable for running within small targets. -- 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
