Is the kernel compiler gcc by definition?

RHS Linux User (humbubba@raptor.cqi.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:48:23 -0400 (EDT)

Is there a policy on what C constructs may be in the kernel?
Or is gcc the de-facto definition of what kind of code is allowed?
Or something else?
Does anything in the normal arguments to gcc preclude the use of gcc's
labels-as-values? ( computed gotos).

I did a quick grep for goto * and got no hits.

Labels-as-values is a case where gcc is more low-level than "C", and is
crucial to certain things, like the inner interpreter of gForth, and the
Forth-like critter I'm ( back burner) working on.

Rick Hohensee .sig abbreviated for l-k

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