Re: [Tinycc-devel] Feature request: Implementing asm directives .set and .equ

[Jens Nyberg]

2013/8/26 Thomas Preud'homme <address@hidden>:
> Le lundi 26 août 2013 13:07:37 Jens Nyberg a écrit :
>> Hi!
>>
>> I think implementing .set and .equ which are both functionally
>> equivalent would be a easy task unless someone is already working on
>> this?
>>
>> If I implement it myself I assume what they do would be to define a
>> symbol with a value and that's it. Or am I missing something?
>>
>> And also, there is no reason for why these are not supported besides
>> lack of time?
>
> As most (all?) FLOSS project, there is difinitely a lack of time / manpower to
> work on TinyCC. The number of feature request and bug report is currently
> increasing and there seem to be no progress so far. There is a few bugs and
> improvement I'd like to work on myself for a long time but don't have time to
> work on for various reason.
>
> If you feel you can do it then please go ahead and feel free to ask questions.
> Help is more than welcome :)
>

I'll see what I can do. =) I've actually spent a couple of weeks now
almost every day just trying to straighten up the whole tcc codebase
for a project of mine where I've removed all use of global variables
(most of them ended up in the tcc_state struct which in turn is passed
around). It was one hell of a job and I've now reached the point where
I am actually trying to compile another project of mine using it and
this is where I noticed these missing directives. The point of the
whole project is to create a non-posix freestanding i386/x86 compiler
so most changes I've done does not apply to tcc directly but the ones
that do (like this one) will be shared back to the community after
being ported back to tcc properly.

> Best regards,
>
> Thomas