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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Anyone else working with the RISC-V port?
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Christian Jullien |
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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Anyone else working with the RISC-V port? |
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Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:26:30 +0100 |
tcc Linux/riscv-64 is now part of my OpenLisp compiler non-regression plateform
and the result is as good as if compiled with gcc (except of course execution
speed).
My huge OpenLisp test suite runs flawlessly when using tcc.
For my use, this port is fully functional. I use a Gnufarm emulated machine
installed with latest Debian. I'm impatient to see a RPi like with riscv-64.
Here is what I can say of the wonderful port made by Michael.
C.
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Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 23:41
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Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Anyone else working with the RISC-V port?
Hello,
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Charles Lohr wrote:
> I am interested in doing a project using TinyCC, a web-based IDE for
> the ESP32-C3, a wifi-enabled microcontroller.
> https://github.com/cnlohr/espwebc3/blob/main/README.md
>
> I spent a while trying to decipher riscv-gen, and it's actually not
> that bad. Very much inline with the cryptic TinyCC (ok, bit of a jab,
> but it's not that bad). It currently only supports RV64, vs the chip
> I'll be using supports RV32-IMC. Conveniently, most of the
> instructions implemented in riscv-gen are the 32-bit instructions,
> only a handful of RV64 instructions, which shouldn't be too difficult to
> avoid.
Right, that should be relatively easy. One thing to look out for will probably
be the fact that you then need to use the generic code in tcc for open-coding
64bit support (e.g. arithmetic on long long), i.e.
lexpand/lbuild/gen_opl, which currently is only tested on i386 and arm32.
Look for uses of PTR_SIZE in tccgen.c.
You also need to adjust the linker/object-file-writer to use ELF32 on riscv;
that's all supported already of course, but needs the right conditionals and
some additional defines/codes for the 32bit relocations (where they really
differ from the ELF64 ones).
> Is anyone else working in this area? Has anyone expressed any
> possibility at adding a few more comments to the riscv-gen code?
Well, what can I say. Sure, comments might be nice, if they clarify things :)
> Are there any landmines I may run into?
Not that I know of, it's all fairly straight forward. I have tested the
riscv64 backend only relatively lightly, and am not sure if others have played
much with it, so it's quite possible you run into genuine bugs therein.
> How eager would people be to add a -m32 flag for RISC-V?
I'd suggest going the same way as i386/x86-64, i.e. create a riscv32-tcc
compiler, which can then be called from tcc when -m32 is used. Supporting both
bit-width in the same executable will run into major refactoring work as
several types are hard-coded (e.g. the whole ELF support isn't conditionalized
at runtime per word width).
Ciao,
Michael.