[Gllug] GnuLess/GnuFree distro/cc/libc ??

[Richard Cohen]

On 7 May 2002, John Hearns wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:52, John Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > Although there are attempts to mix some elements of BSD and Linux (eg
> > BSD with apt-get), but I think the Linux kernel is too tied to gcc for
> > it to work on other C compiliers.
>
> As far as I know (which is not a lot) that is true.
>
> but I have an idle thought - has anyone ever tried to
> compile a Linux kernel with another compiler?
> I wonder what the exact reasons are why it would not work?

There is quite extensive use of non-standard GCC extensions in the kernel
source code, as I understand it...

Cheers
Richard


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