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Subject: Re: non-gcc linux? (was Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10?)
To: Tim@Rikers.org (Tim Riker)
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> How can I insure that the largest possible amount of my efforts benefit
> the community at large? Hopefully this will make it easier to move to
> C99 or any other future compiler porting project.

The asm I dont know - its a hard problem. Things like C99 initializers for 2.5
seem quite a reasonable change. There are also things like partial structure
packing with __attribute((packed)) that can be hard to port

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