Subject: Re: c compilers
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/13/2001 08:36:20
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:33:46AM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2001, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
> >  Is it able to successfully compile the NetBSD kernel and the rest of
> >  userland? I mean, was anyone able to boot and use the system after it was
> >  recompiled with lcc?
> 
> I dunno... doesn't matter unless you're trying to compile the NetBSD
> kernel though. lcc can compile non-trivial C programs; it may be able to
> compile Emanuel Stiebler's programs. You seem very adamant about trying
> to claim that gcc is the only C compiler around.

The Linux version of the Intel compiler ought to be able to be smashed into
generating native NetBSD executables with only a little bit of work; ELF is
ELF, after all.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
    And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
						   William Styron