From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mjn3@codepoet.org (Manuel Novoa III) Subject: Re: C compiler, assembler and linker Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:02:08 -0600 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020715220208.GA15993@codepoet.org> References: <20020715170205.GA12650@codepoet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Riley Williams Cc: Harry Kalogirou , Linux-8086 Riley, On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:13:01PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: > Can I add some wish-list items: I've only been adding some features, like #elif and #warning, that I tend to use in my uClibc code. My main interest isn't in working on bcc, but in reducing the work I need to do in porting uClibc to elks. > 6) True support for the "signed" keyword. At the moment, any file > using it has to include a "#define signed" line to remove it for > bcc, and in some cases, even that isn't enough as the code stops > working as a result. Yes, I know. bcc supports only unsigned char. Coding around that limitation can be a pain. > 7) At least a warning message if any unrecognised options are given > on the command line. At the moment, unrecognised options are just > silently ignored! Probably not worth doing at the moment because the main bcc driver was rewritten recently and is probably still in flux. > Also, are there any plans to get these included in the primary bcc code? I had planned to send my patches to the dev86 maintainer. When I get the patch cleaned up and post it here, I'll also forward it on to Robert de Bath... although I've seen him post to this list on occassion. Manuel