[LinuxBIOS] Feature request - romcc

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Mon Apr 11 17:09:46 CEST 2005


Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:

> >I have had a brief look at romcc.c, and it is a HUGE piece of code, and I do
> >not think that it is of merit for me to look at that code while actually
> >trying to get something else working!
> >
> Hamish:
> 
> IMHO, romcc is a very remarkable piece of work by Eric Biederman. I argued
> against it at the time as being too ambitious, but of course, Eric proved it
> could be done.  It really should be put up on its own web site as a separate
> project.  There are probably other projects that could benefit from a C code
> compiler that operates purely in registers without RAM enabled.

If the interest develops I will be happy to.  But until then that simply
generates more maintenance work, and I'd rather spend my time developing things.

Eric




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