Re: [Tinycc-devel] TCC on ARM

[Daniel Glöckner]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:29:11AM -0800, tike64 wrote:
> Thanks for hint. Why wasn't -lm needed when host machine was i386?

Glibc on i386 has ldexp in libc.so.6 as well as in libm.so.6, so -lm is
not needed.

Are you trying to compile it on Linux?

> tcc.c:9505:2: warning: #warning add arch specific rt_get_caller_pc()
> 
> Hope that is not critical.

It's not critical. I didn't implement it because the TCC stackframe is
not the same as the one produced by GCC, so backtraces would show only
TCC compiled functions.

> arm-linux-gcc -O2 -Wall -c -o libtcc1.o libtcc1.c
> libtcc1.c:140:2: #error unsupported CPU type

There are several reasons why ARM isn't supported by libtcc1 in the
official TCC distribution:

1. TCC has no ARM assembler
2. ARMv4 has no instructions for divisions
3. There are more functions needed in libtcc1 for ARM than for i386
4. libgcc1.a or libgcc1_s.so can be used instead

If you don't use the EABI patch that I posted some weeks ago, you can
use the libtcc1 from my homepage:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~daniel/tcc/

I prefer to just ln -s libgcc1_s.so to libtcc1.a.

> Building bcheck fails also. Why does it try to build that when it
> doesn't in case of i386 host?

The Makefile is stupid.
Bounds checking is not supported for ARM.
Feel free to add support for it.

  Daniel