Re: Help Wanted!

["Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@freemail.nl>]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:30:24 -0600
 Miguel Bolanos <mike@hsol.net> wrote:
>Greetings to all,
>
>As you may have noticed the project has been stuck for quite a while, i
>am looking forward to bring it back to life, but and would like to ask
>for some help, obviously coders are very welcome, but also people
>willing to help writing docs, and even people looking forward to help us
>create a new look for the project website.
>Looking forward to hear back from you.

Hi!

I don't think I will be of much help, but the ELKS project has
interested me enough to keep myself subscribed to the list
(and the list hasn't received enough spam to annoy me ;) ) My
_personal_ opinion is that ELKS as it stands (8086-specific)
will never have enough support to become an interesting 
project. Supporting more architectures means that there is 
the need for a flexible compiler, and very portable code.

I think portable code is equivalent to "gcc-like" in this case, but 
gcc itself seems far too complex to ever work in a "small" 
environment. The TinyCC [1] compiler comes close, and already 
has non-i386 code generators. It lacks a pure 8086 generator, 
however. I also think that the compiler should implement a 32
bit int (and in fact adhere to the limits as given in susv3 [2]). 
That way there could be more code-sharing with other "modern"
projects, in particular dietlibc, uClibc, Busybox.

Anyhow: Good Luck :)

btw. Who is the maintainer of this list?
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regards,
    Alexander

[1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/
[2] http://unix.org

>regards
>
>Miguel.
>
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