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Message-ID: <45C8EC6B.8070504@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:00:27 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@...oo.fr>, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re : Re : Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for
 loading by Gujin 1/3

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
>>  Modifying the linux real mode assembler, nobody could even want to.
> 
> I have several times.  It's just code.  But I do agree it will likely
> be more maintainable if we can convert it to C.
> 
> On that same token I wrote a compiler in romcc in another context so I
> didn't have to write so much assembly.  And for maintainability and
> comprehensibility it was a big help.
> 

I've long wished that someone would do a proper 16-bit x86 port of gcc; 
however, the .code16gcc is usually good enough, although it produces 
code which is a lot bigger than it needs to be.

	-hpa

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