It's in the freebios2 tree: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/freebios/freebios2/util/romcc/
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Frank wrote: > Where can I get RomCC... > --- Bari Ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nathanael Noblet wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote: > > > > > >> Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really confused. > > What > > >> is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and > > LinuxBios. I > > >> thought they were one in the same.:-( > > > > > > > > > freebios was started before linuxbios. LinuxBIOS "took over" > > freebios, > > > but didn't change the cvs name. V1 of freebios/linuxbios is > > the CVS > > > module freebios. Freebios2 is LinuxBIOS version 2. > > > > FreeBios = LinuxBIOS. > > > > LinuxBIOS was forked when Eric wrote RomCC last year. V2 > > (Version2) is > > the new LinuxBIOS source tree that is the 100% C version of > > LinuxBIOS. > > V1 (Version 1) is the old LinuxBIOS source that used assembly > > and C. > > > > "romcc is a C compiler that does not use a stack. Instead it > > keeps > > all variables in registers. > > > > Currently LinuxBIOS has a lot of assembly code simply because > > memory > > initialization is difficult in the general case. This code > > cannot be > > written with a standard compiler because there is no memory to > > put > > a stack in. Nor on x86 are there cache blocks that can be > > locked into > > place. As code generated with romcc does not use a stack it > > can be > > used during memory initialization." > > > > -Bari > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
