Hi Juan How much smaller? If I remember correctly, one of ELKS limits was that binaries had to fit on a 64KB page, and that was due to the compiler we used (dev86 / bcc). Do you think/know if GCC may solve this limit, being able to produce multi-page binaries? On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:08 AM, Juan Perez-Sanchez <lithoxs@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- > 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 -- 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
