For those interested, Mentor announced a GCC back end for 8086 family of cpu's. See the link: https://blogs.mentor.com/embedded/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-sourcery-codebench-lite-for-ia16/ Following the links there you can reach the page for download. This seems to be a development based on ia16-gcc previously mentioned in this list, but using a newer version of GCC and all rough edges rounded. I used this compiler to build the ELKS kernel. The kernel produced appears to work fine. The compiler is very fast and produces a smaller kernel. -- 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