[Bug target/99900] feature request: 16-bit x86 C compiler / support compilation of (VirtualBox) BIOS

2021-04-09 Thread u1049321969 at caramail dot com via Gcc-bugs
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99900 --- Comment #8 from tk --- Hello Patrick, > Can you or anyone guestimate / speculate how big a bounty in USD value would > be required to get this ticket implemented in gcc as well as getting a patch > merged at VirtualBox starting to use this?

[Bug target/99900] feature request: 16-bit x86 C compiler / support compilation of (VirtualBox) BIOS

2021-04-08 Thread u1049321969 at caramail dot com via Gcc-bugs
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99900 --- Comment #7 from tk --- Hello Andrew, Incidentally, the patches for binutils-ia16 (https://github.com/tkchia/binutils-ia16) to support IA-16 relocations (https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16/blob/master/elf16-writeup.md), could perhaps also b

[Bug target/99900] feature request: 16-bit x86 C compiler / support compilation of (VirtualBox) BIOS

2021-04-08 Thread u1049321969 at caramail dot com via Gcc-bugs
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99900 --- Comment #6 from tk --- Hello Andrew, > A bug bounty might be useful here since I highly doubt this will be done > otherwise. The gcc-ia16 port is working, but internals-wise, some parts of the IA-16 patches are still rather hacky --- some

[Bug target/99900] feature request: 16-bit x86 C compiler / support compilation of (VirtualBox) BIOS

2021-04-08 Thread u1049321969 at caramail dot com via Gcc-bugs
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99900 tk changed: What|Removed |Added CC||u1049321969 at caramail dot com --- Comment #5 from