Re: New GCC compiler for 8086 cpu's

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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.
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