Re: [Tinycc-devel] Plan9 extensions

[Elijah Stone]

On Tue, 18 May 2021, grischka wrote:

> While nicely done formally I would think these patches still seem to add 
> quite a lot of 'td' (mostly mentioned in combination with '= 0;' or '= 
> td;')

I noticed that...

Not sure if there's a better way, though.  Adding the field to 'Sym' 
wouldn't make sense, since you can typedef the same type multiple times; 
which typedef you use is a property of a specific declaration.

> for a rather obscure feature

Tracking the typedefs also improves error messages--if you use typedefs, 
you will get messages like "cannot convert 'struct <anonymous>' to 'struct 
<anonymous>'" which is not really helpful

(Granted I don't think error messages are very helpful anyway, but still.)

> Did you eventually consider to introduce yourself to tinycc with 
> something more commonly useful, ideally within a range that you would be 
> able to handle easily, already? ;)

I think most of the features I want are either complex and obscure (e.g. 
custom linker scripts, intel assembler, dwarf) or completely trivial 
(one-argument _Static_assert, better EFI support, custom entry point).

So--we'll see, I suppose :)

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