GNU bug report logs - #33976
[PATCH] gnu: Add dev86.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#33976] [PATCH] gnu: Add dev86.
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 19:34:10 +0100

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> It’d be nice to add a few words about what’s special about this
> toolchain (not obvious from their README…).

It's primarily 16-bit.  I package it because of xen which uses it to compile
old-school BIOSes.

It was quite popular in 1990 and used even by the Linux kernel.

Nowadays, few projects still use it. 

I pushed it as 1bde3d2cbf311f6d6c733339a000b7395cb2f945.

Please amend description if necessary.

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