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Re: [MiNT] MiNT1.17 Changes



On Thursday 30 Dec 2010 11:03:57 Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:31 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > It's probably not a problem in this particular case. But what about the
> > > future? Can we still use 2.95 for development?
> > 
> > To be honest, we need to move with the times. I doubt the gcc folks are
> > supporting 2.95, and we have 4.x binaries now. So why stick with 2.95 ?
> 
> gcc in general is painfully slow, but 2.95 is just about usable on my
> Milan060. 4.x is... well... not. I'm not using emulators or
> cross-compilers, I prefer to use the real thing.

How about the alternatives, vbcc and ahcc, wich are both currently maintained? 
Can't they compile the kernel?

Cheers,
JFL
-- 
Jean-François Lemaire