Howdy all,
I was curious how well TinyCC performs on real world projects, so I decided to test it on my gentoo machine. I've written a small script (rebuild_tcc.sh, attached) that will attempt to build all currently installed packages with tcc. It works by testing that all installed packages A) use a C compiler, B) work with clang and gcc, then finally C) building with tcc.
Note: I'm emerging binary packages, essentially building then discarding each program, so the tcc compiled binaries aren't used for compiling other packages.
The first few rounds of tests help to reduce the noise ratio. For instance, on my system, I have 855 packages installed. Of that, only 591 used a C compiler.
Reducing down, that gave me a list of 473 packages that built using gcc and clang. Of those, after
http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git/commitdiff/ba286136bf8e48c71ffd6c2fd9ce97e64a6eeeb1, 231 packages build with tcc, with 242 failed.
I've attached the good/bad lists and the log from building to this email, in case you want to try it yourself.
I haven't tried looking through to see what the most common failures are, I'll leave that for someone else (along with fixing all the bugs it found ;) )
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-Austin
rebuild_tcc.sh
results.tar.xz