[Tinycc-devel] Crazy idea

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Olsen <address@hidden> writes:

    Brian> Is this compiler up to the task of being able to build a
    Brian> tiny linux source based distro around it?

Certainly not for the Linux kernel. The kernel source heavily uses GCC
extensions (including asm).

I would believe that many GNU/Linux programs are compilable by TCC
(since they are compilable by any ANSI C compiler, including vendor
compilers on other Unix systems).

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