gcc-8086

[Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@conectiva.com.br>]

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Hi, all,

I've been working on the DJ gcc i86 target patches, and I've been making
it work using gas instead of nasm, and had some progress.

I would like to know if there is anyone interested on the gcc-8086 work,
here, or that have worked on it before. I am starting to look at ELKS
code, and I plan to test their binaries using ELKS.

Another question: is there any interest from the ELKS project in using
GCC to build ELKS? Wouldn't it make easier the work of porting existing
Linux Kernel code to ELKS, for example?

I am wondering how painful would be making the actual Linux Kernel code
work on a 16-bit arch, once we have a working gcc-8086. The Linux code
seems to be "at-least-32-bit dependant" in many parts that are supposed
to be arch-independant. But once those parts are changed, there are some
strong reasons for not doing it?

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Eduardo

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