RE: [Tinycc-devel] .rept .endr support

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Hi Fabrice,

In the 2.6 kernel there is a .rept in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S.

Before I jump into compiling the kernel with tcc, I need to learn more about
the types of problems that I might run into.  I noticed that you changed a
few "g=" to "r=" in inline asm code. Why and what does that really mean?
Also, there was some typesystem problem with using ?: statements, which you
expanded out manually. What would have to change inside the compiler to
handle those correctly?

Marc



> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf
> Of Fabrice Bellard
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:24 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] .rept .endr support
>
>
> Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read with great interest about tccboot and the ability to compile the
> > linux kernel quickly with tcc. There were a few mods required
> to the 2.4.26
> > kernel to get it to compile with tcc. One of them was .rept and .endr
> > support.
> >
> > As I'd like to start playing with tcc, I was thinking about adding such
> > support myself as a contribution back to your project. I
> started to hack in
> > support for rept/endr support into tccasm.c:asm_parse_directive().
> > Specifically, I was thinking of simply creating a BufferedFile
> object that
> > captured the code between the .rept and .endr asm directives,
> and then cause
> > tcc to process this N times as specified by .rept.  Would that
> be a viable
> > approach?
>
> It is better to record the tokens between .rept and .endr. Otherwise you
> will have problems with the preprocessor. I did not try to compile the
> 2.6 kernel. It would be interesting if you could try and see what are
> the problems (note: .rept/.endr do not seem to be used in such kernels !).
>
> Fabrice.
>
>
>
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