You missed the point too

Actually, I'm working on making tinycc (a project derived from tcc) compile the rest of the
stack, including the kernel.  I have rather a lot of work left to do, of course. :)

http://landley.net/code/tinycc

I find gold interesting, but not useful in my case because tinycc's linker is built-in.  (I'm
reorganizing the code to work as a "swiss army knife" executable ala busybox, but that's not
in -pre2.  Maybe -pre3.)

As for the kernel, the linux-tiny project is working on getting that more modular so we need
to select less of it...

Rob