Re: ACK ANSI C compiler

["Hans" <hans64@ht-lab.com>]

Hi David,

Looks quite interesting and I will check it out when I have some free time. 
I am currently using the free Watcom compiler which supports the 8086 and 
upwards. I used this compiler (ver 10.0) years ago for a QNX based embedded 
system and it was quite good. The 8086 support is OKish, you have to fix 
some minor issues but nothing to difficult (like .386 pragma in the assembly 
listings). The full source code is available and the user group seems quite 
active.

See http://www.openwatcom.org/

To use it for my home grown system I wrote a simple runtime support and some 
basic library calls like putch/getch/sprintf/printf. I then wrote a monitor 
which included basic I/O interrupt handlers like int21/int10/int16.
By using a tiny model (.com) I avoid the requirement for a locator. I then 
translate the binary com file into an intel hex file and upload it to my 
board. So far it seems to work OK. When I have some more time I will put all 
this stuff on my website.

Does ACK compiles ELKS?

Regards,
Hans.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Given" <dg@cowlark.com>
To: <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:12 PM
Subject: ACK ANSI C compiler

I just thought that people here might be interested to know that I've been
(slowly) working on resurrecting the old ACK compiler toolchain, used by
Minix. It got open sourced a few years ago, under an extremely liberal BSD
license.

http://tack.sourceforge.net/

The reason why I say this is that it is, as far as I know, the only decent
free ANSI C i86 compiler. Tiny and small model only, unfortunately, but
that's all that ELKS requires. It should certainly be better than bcc, but
then a lot of things are...

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