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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Fix signedness of LL shift operators in libtcc1.c (gr


From: Rob Landley
Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Fix signedness of LL shift operators in libtcc1.c (grischka-2005-09-25 case_10)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 17:11:00 -0400
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On Thursday 03 May 2007 5:00 pm, David A. Wheeler wrote:

> This bug can only be triggered on certain compilation conditions
> that are NOT true for the normal tcc test harness.  In particular, you have
> to be using a version of libtcc1.c that was compiled with __TINYC__ defined.
> On a typical installation this is NOT true. So to force the USE of the
> library code modified here, after you've done ./configure && make
> on tcc, do this when in the tcc build directory:
>   ./tcc -c -B. -I. -D__TINYC__ -o x.o libtcc1.c 
>   mv x.o libtcc1.o
>   make libtcc1.a
>   rm tcc
>   make tcc
>   make test

I is confuse-ed.

What's the #define __TINYC__ for?  By which I mean why is there a codepath 
that doesn't use it, and under what circumstances would it be naturally 
enabled (or actually needed) rather than just forced for testing purposes?

(Any time the checkin comment is 5 times the size of the patch, I worry. :)

Rob




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