What's that "GNU/Linux" in the beginning?

What's that "GNU/Linux" in the beginning?

Posted Jan 5, 2007 19:38 UTC (Fri) by landley (subscriber, #6789)
In reply to: What's that "GNU/Linux" in the beginning? by dwheeler
Parent article: The Ultimate Distro (Linux Journal)

I've got my own mercurial repository which has turned into a semi-fork:

http://landley.net/hg/tinycc

But I've got too many other things going on to want to become the
project's new maintainer right now. The old maintainer (Fabrice) has his
hands full with QEMU.

And it does do a little optimization, simple constant propogation and
such. It wouldn't be that hard to shoehorn dead code elimination in
there, which makes it a lot more usable for things like the linux kernel
and busybox (where dead code elimination is relied on by the configure
system to avoid lots of hideous #ifdefs).

Getting the linker to garbage collect is a larger project...

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