From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4560 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Musl + TCC Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:53:04 +0100 Message-ID: <52F7F8C0.9070607@gentoo.org> References: <20140209214308.GO15627@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391982787 27701 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2014 21:53:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:53:07 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4564-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Feb 09 22:53:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WCcJQ-0000An-7e for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:53:16 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 20041 invoked by uid 550); 9 Feb 2014 21:53:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 20033 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2014 21:53:15 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20140209214308.GO15627@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4560 Archived-At: On 09/02/14 22:43, Rich Felker wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 09:15:28PM +0100, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: >> 2014-02-09 21:07 GMT+01:00 Andre Renaud : >>> Hi, >>> Has anyone had a go at building musl with Tiny-CC http://bellard.org/tcc/? >> >> and libfirm/cparser? :) >> http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/ > > If I remember correctly, last I checked, libfirm/cparser was working > fine for static linking, but did not support dynamic linking (it > completely lacked position-independent code generation, i.e. -fPIC). > There were some problems with complex and some floating point things, > but I think they were all fixed. I built a static libc.a with cparser > and the results passed basic testing. > > This is definitely the most promising GCC-alternative compiler I've > seen, so if anybody's up for helping promote it and/or contribute to > the project, that would be great. I contributed a bit and I'm routinely filling bugs to it. It is indeed easy to work with and the upstream developers are pleasant to work with. They indeed need more mindshare. I hope once they converted cparser to an usable library they'll bloom fully. lu