[POC] Add pnut-exe as alternative to Mes #554
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Pnut-exe was recently made compatible with M2-Planet, with this PR working-around certain incompatibilities with M2-Planet, and oriansj/M2-Planet#161, oriansj/M2-Planet#162, oriansj/M2-Planet#163 extending M2-Planet. Since pnut-exe can bootstrap TCC, it means there is now a path from hex0 to TCC passing via pnut-exe.
This PR is a proof of concept to show how this can be done for x86 while keeping the tcc-0.9.26 checksum the same.
The main benefit of using pnut-exe is reduced bootstrap times, the time to reach tcc-0.9.26 goes from over 10 minutes to around 1 minute (with the steps involving pnut taking only a few seconds).