From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Subject: Re: Mes 0.8 released Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:30:58 +0200 Message-ID: <874lv359ct.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87shio57y8.fsf@gnu.org> <20170626092254.5992527.92824.71003@ossau.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPRIf-0006O5-LV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 06:31:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPRIe-0004Q4-KH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 06:31:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170626092254.5992527.92824.71003@ossau.homelinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:22:54 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Neil Jerram Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, epsilon-devel@gnu.org Neil Jerram writes: Hi Neil! > In your bootstrap path, what is the step after Mes?=E2=80=8E I guess it w= ould > be using mescc to compile some C program - but if that is right, which > program?=C2=A0 Indeed. Short answer: I don't know. Do you have something in mind? We haven't decided yet and are still exploring possibilities. We are looking for the target that requires the least amount of work to get us close the bootstrap path to gcc. The most obvious candidate to compile with mescc is tinycc. rain1 has worked with the tinycc and succeeded in compiling GCC 4.7.0 using tinycc[0]. However, tinycc uses C constructs that mescc does not support [yet] and libc functions that mescc's libc does not have. So we are also considering other candidates such as 8cc, pcc, the ack, cc500, gcc-2.95 (what about earlier gcc's?). Another possible first target for Mescc could be libguile/eval.c ;-) and develop a fork/sister of mescc as guilecc. Greetings, janneke [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.com