Re: [Tinycc-devel] Status for 0.9.27

[Christian Jullien]

We can also have something more factual:

This version compiles ROOTB (including standard non-regression tests) on
- Linux x86
- Linux x86_64
- Linux arm
- Linux aarch64

(Here we can list the few removed tests on specific platforms).

tcc Linux ports are known to be usable to compile medium to large scaled
projects. It may or may not be the case with your own project.

It is known to produce reasonable complex programs on Windows x86 and x86_64
(Grischka I'm not sure if someone ran all tests on Windows)

BSD* ports are known to have unresolved linker issues.
Apple lacks a MACHO backend
C67 has not been tested it may or may not work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tinycc-devel [mailto:address@hidden
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Sent: mercredi 23 novembre 2016 18:19
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Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Status for 0.9.27

Christian Jullien wrote:
> Hi all,
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> tcc status has never been clear to me. I mean, we don't really what 
> has been tested or not.

Honorable attempt, however I think peoples' mileage may vary as to what
"works" means.  Some may not consider tcc as a working compiler at all, and
maybe they're right.

I'd say: It does something, on linux and windows, best on i386 but also on
x86_64.  From how the sources look also some arm variants seem to be
supported, as well as aarch64 since lately.  FreeBSD has unresolved linker
problems, as well as -static on all platforms since well, forever.
For Apple it lacks a MACHO backend.  So that is pretty much the same as you
already noticed.

At least we can say that it does more than last release.

--- grischka


> For example, who knows the status of FreeBSD on Aarch64?
> 
> It is generally admitted that tcc 'globally' works well on Linux and 
> Windows. If we go further and ask the same question with shared V.S. 
> static it is less clear. Is Aarch64 really supported? How has it been
tested.
> 
> Can we really say that tcc works on Apple as it cannot produce
executables?
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> On the other hand we know that it does not fully work on *BSD 
> (x86/x86_64)
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> IMHO we should have better status based on tests made.
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> I'm ready to run standard regression tests and validate static 
> executables with my Lisp non-regression test on:
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> -          arm Linux
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> -          aarch64 Linux
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> -          x86 Windows
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> -          x86_64 Windows
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> We should have somewhere a spreadsheet with all features tcc supports 
> we will fill for different OS/processor
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> Wdyt?
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