Re: Re : Re : Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation forloading by Gujin 1/3

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >  Modifying the linux real mode assembler, nobody could even want to.
>
> I have several times.  It's just code.  But I do agree it will likely
> be more maintainable if we can convert it to C.
>
> On that same token I wrote a compiler in romcc in another context so I
> didn't have to write so much assembly.  And for maintainability and
> comprehensibility it was a big help.

I've long wished that someone would do a proper 16-bit x86 port of gcc; 
however, the .code16gcc is usually good enough, although it produces 
code which is a lot bigger than it needs to be.

	-hpa

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