Sounds great, Jan. Happy to see progress.

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:

> I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.11, representing 16
> commits over 10 weeks.  MesCC now compiles a less heavily patched
> TinyCC into a mes-tcc that in turn passes 41/69 of mescc's C tests.
>
> When mes-tcc passes all 69 tests, this almost-full-source-bootstrapped
> version of TinyCC should be able to compile itself.  An unpatched, GNU
> Gcc-compiled tcc is known to compile GNU Gcc.
>
> * About
>
>     Mes[0] aims to create full source bootstrapping for GuixSD[1] as
>     part of the bootstrappable builds[2] project.
>
>     It currently consists of a mutual self-hosting [close to Guile-]
>     Scheme interpreter prototype in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler in
>     [Guile] Scheme.  This C prototype will be rewritten in stage0[3]
>     M1 assembly (or compiled by M2-Planet or stage2 slow-LISP, or ...).
>
>     The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector,
>     a library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's
>     LALR[4], Pre-R6RS portable syntax-case[5] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt
>     Wette's Nyacc[6], Guile's PEG[7] --and test suite just barely
>     enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and simple C-compiler
>     MesCC (mescc.mes).
>
>     MesCC can compile a modified TinyCC[8] that is close to being
>     self-hosting.  A GNU Ccc-compiled tcc is known[9] to compile GCC.
>
>     Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[10]
>     -- John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging
>     transparency and Jeremiah Orians's stage0 ~300 byte self-hosting
>     hex assembler.
>
> * Download
>
>     git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
>
>     wget https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes/repository/archive.tar.gz?
> ref=v0.11 -O mes-0.11.tar.gz
>
> Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and
> installed in Guix[SD] by the usual
>
>     guix package -f guix.scm
>
> * Changes in 0.11 since 0.10
>  ** MesCC
>  *** MesCC now compiles a mes-tcc that passes 41/69 of mescc's C tests.
>  *** MesCC's libc can now be compiled with tcc (syscall support: write).
>  *** MesCC now compiles a less-patched tcc: -214/+458 lines [WAS:
> -333/+747].
>  *** MesCC now supports empty for.
>  *** MesCC has been greatly refactored, 500/3000 lines have been removed.
>  *** MesCC now supports complex [struct] by value assign foo.bar,
> foo->bar, foo[bar].
>  *** MesCC now depends on Nyacc 0.82.4.
>
> Greetings,
> janneke
>
> [0] https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
> [2] http://bootstrappable.org
> [3] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
> [4] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
> [5] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
> [6] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
> [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/
> PEG-Parsing.html
> [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
> [9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
> [10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.
> 5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
>
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