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		dboreham 72 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software factories and the agentic moment I don't think tinycc can compile the Linux kernel into a bootable image.

Calavar 72 days ago [–]

It could once upon a time: https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

It can't do that today though. Linux uses C11 features and also many GCC extensions that tcc doesn't implement.

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