Re: [Tinycc-devel] shared libraries with tcc - any ETA?

[arnold]

"Thomas Preud'homme" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Le vendredi 10 janvier 2014, 09:08:22 Aharon Robbins a écrit :
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I've reported before, that on i386 and x86_64 Linux, tcc produces
> > shared libraries that sometimes can't be used. This is in the context
> > of gawk (GNU Awk). I get errors like this:
> > 
> > ../gawk: Symbol `malloc' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation
> > ../gawk: Symbol `free' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation
> > ../gawk: Symbol `malloc' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation
> > ../gawk: Symbol `free' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation
> > ../gawk: Symbol `malloc' causes overflow in R_X86_64_PC32 relocation
> > [ ... and many more ]
> > 
> > This is the only thing preventing me from switching to tcc for everday
> > development, which is a shame, as it is S O   M U C H  F A S T E R than
> > gcc is.
>
> Nope sorry. Although it is one of the thing I want fixed the most there is no 
> ETA as nobody is working on it AFAIK. I'll probably take a look someday but 
> my 
> time is limited and I don't have an x86 machine at hand (I do have access 
> over 
> ssh though) so it makes it less convenient to work on this issue.

I can test patches for you if it will help.

Thanks,

Arnold