Re: New GCC compiler for 8086 cpu's

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No. GCC is huge and ELKS is tiny. It's impossible to fit GCC in elks.

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14/06/17 01:08, Juan Perez-Sanchez wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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> Does it recurse? ie can you build it so it works on ELKS?
>
> Tom
>
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