Originally a large part of my business was going to be developing & maintaining a legacy C stack, that will be balanced against whether better options for lightweight C compilers become available.
This could mean that upcoming releases (1.1) may not include the custom “compilec” builds, which will make actually producing releases easier in the short term. This won’t change anything longer term, the compiler code is still there and can be reused later.
The kernel & networking code have mostly been tuned for use with small compilers which could be a useful feature in some environments, but the compiler code remains buggy and in need of more maintenance so this is simply a cost cutting or prioritisation move.
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