Re: Mes 0.10 released

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Arne Babenhauserheide writes:

> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>> Arne Babenhauserheide writes:
>>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>>>> I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.10, representing 82
>>>> commits over 6 weeks.  Mescc now compiles a bootstrappable-modified
>>>> TinyCC into a mes-tcc that in turn can successfully compile a trivial
>>>> C program.
>>>
>>> Nice! How big are your changes to TinyCC?
>>
>> $ gl| head -30
>> 6773110e lotsa debug printing
>> 429e4366 bootstrappable: workaround mescc bugs.
>> 5881b4cd bootstrap build scripts
>> 2712a934 bootstrappable: struct by value assign.
..
>> For details, see
>>
>>     [8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
>>
>> TinyCC uses (imho) unnecessarily complex C constructs.  Therefore it is (imho)
>> not too well suited as a bootstrap dependency, at least not in an
>> unpatched state.
>
> It still works with GCC, right?

Yes.  Luckily, GCC can still handle simple C constructs ;-)

When running i686-unknown-linux-tcc and mes-tcc to compile a trivial C
program, the output produced by `lotsa debug printing' from both
compiler runs is now identical, as is the resulting ELF binary.

janneke

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