Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:00:27 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Re : Re : Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Modifying the linux real mode assembler, nobody could even want to. > > I have several times. It's just code. But I do agree it will likely > be more maintainable if we can convert it to C. > > On that same token I wrote a compiler in romcc in another context so I > didn't have to write so much assembly. And for maintainability and > comprehensibility it was a big help. >
I've long wished that someone would do a proper 16-bit x86 port of gcc; however, the .code16gcc is usually good enough, although it produces code which is a lot bigger than it needs to be.
-hpa
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