[M3devel] main in C or not?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:12:14AM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> 
> Randy, yes, that is my same understanding, from fairly recent experience.
>  
>  
> They ship the kernel as a bunch of static libraries, and one C source file with just tunable data:
>   extern const int max_this = 100;
>   extern const int max_that = 200;
>   etc.
>  
>  
> Certain updates involve changes to that file, recompile it, relink.
> As such, not much of a C compiler is needed.

Watch out for binary libraries fetched in by the C compiler.  Depending 
on license, they may prohibit making a binary distribution.

-- hendrik