From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Javier Sedano Subject: Re: Future of ELKS Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:30:11 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40ACEB23.7010101@agora-2000.com> References: <1084985870.3062.23.camel@talena.hsol.net> <40AC99A5.9030809@agora-2000.com> <1085066127.3062.35.camel@talena.hsol.net> <20040520153744.GL24490@duckman.distro.conectiva> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040520153744.GL24490@duckman.distro.conectiva> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Eduardo Pereira Habkost Cc: Miguel Bolanos , linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Hi, Eduardo Pereira Habkost wrote: > > I guess that running gcc on 8086 will not be possible (or at least it will > not be a simple task), the cc1 binary on my i386 is 2MB, and it will not > be smaller if built for running on 8086. gcc is not a small compiler. The > point is making a 8086 target for gcc. Running gcc on 8086 is another story, > and I guess that is almost impossible. (and not worth, at least for me) > I supposed so. gcc is bloatware for elks. Even "vi" is :-PPP > The issue about running a compiler in a 8086 is that it is too > small. Running a good compiler and development environment on such small > hardware is not easy, and if we choose go this way, we should choose > leaving away other things that we would like, including gcc-8086. If we > choose that all development environment neede to build elks should run > on 8086, too, we will have additional limitations, and we will need first: > > 1. Create a good development environment that runs on elks (we don't > have it). This environment will have all limitations that the 8086 > hardware will impose to us > 2. Make elks build using it > > IMHO, this would be almost impossible. > Minix's ACK does so. Of course, it imposes limitations to the programs (the 64k limit), but is good enough for many applications. I heard something about ACK sources... did they free them? Regards, -- Javier Sedano Jarillo: javier.sedano@agora-2000.com (http://www.it.uc3m.es/~jsedano) Agora Systems, S.A. C/Aravaca 12 E-28040 Madrid (Spain) Tel.: +34 91 533 58 57 Fax.: +34 91 534 84 77 -------- do computers dream of electric penguins?