Re: [Tinycc-devel] Is tcc still being developed?

[Steve Dover]

Peter Busser wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > As far as I see, it's not dead.  I imagine that
> > many people are busy with other projects and haven't
> > had time.  I know that's true for me.
> > In fact, I need to spend some time cleaning up some
> > patches for tcc.
>
>
> I see. What patches do you currently have, if I may ask?
Sorry, no patches for code-generation.
My patches are to make tcc native on uclibc.
And they are probably broken by now, hence why I need
to spend time on them again.

> I've seen a few strange things in the code generated by tcc, like mov $0x0,
> %eax followed by a mov $0x0,%eax.
>
> I was wondering whether it is possible to make tcc output position independent 
> code (PIC). That probably takes a rewrite of i386-gen.c, right?
Plus tccelf.c apparently.

> I'm also having problems with -b, which makes the program crash sometimes.
Hmmm, I've not used that flag as I want small code size.