Subject: pcc (was Re: csup and base)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: None <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/07/2007 13:53:30
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, der Mouse wrote:

> I find this doubtful in view of the tendency to dismiss machines
> under, oh, about 128M, as unusably tiny...and the way NetBSD keeps
> switching to ever-more-bloated compilers, to the point where anything
> under about 128M *may* be unusably tiny in consequence.  (Though that
> view of it may be at least in part my bias against anything that can't
> self-host.)

Have you had a chance to try pcc?

I don't know if it supports your platform of choice yet though.

I don't think NetBSD's version of pcc is up-to-date. But it looks like pcc 
is gaining more platform support. Even recently some work was done to make 
it do some cross compiles.


http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/supported-platforms/

http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/cross-compiler/

http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/cross-compile/



  Jeremy C. Reed