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Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 08:23:24 +0200
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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:47:35AM -0500, Juan Perez-Sanchez wrote:
> I will send a set of 5 patches aimed to ease the transition
> to other C compiler.

Surely a useful step.

> The compilers considered are open-watcom
> and ia16-unknown-elks-gcc.

We should keep in mind that open-watcom has a minefield license.
One ought to be careful to not introduce any dependency on it.

Juan, wonder if you tried/considered Coherent C compiler?

Rl