Comment Adopt GCC extensions? (Score 2, Interesting) 45
Interesting to see their compiler supports GNU C extensions. Usually it's the other way around, free software keeps implementing undocumented extensions. At least the GNU extensions are useful (like 0-sized arrays), and well documented.
It's also interesting that they wrote their own compiler, instead of patching GCC. GCC also works on Windows and 3.1 already has optimizations for different CPU extensions to x86.
They also wrote a new debugger (LDB) specially for Linux, although they claim it implements only a subset of GDB, so what is it for?
And to compile the kernel...who will do that? Is there some server vendor planning to sell Intel servers with such kernels on?
It's also interesting that they wrote their own compiler, instead of patching GCC. GCC also works on Windows and 3.1 already has optimizations for different CPU extensions to x86.
They also wrote a new debugger (LDB) specially for Linux, although they claim it implements only a subset of GDB, so what is it for?
And to compile the kernel...who will do that? Is there some server vendor planning to sell Intel servers with such kernels on?
