Re: [Tinycc-devel] mob-stuff branch?

[grischka]

On 23.10.2022 09:48, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> Hi Grischka and folks!
>
> I have just pulled after some time.
> In my clone, i see a remotes/origin/mob-stuff branch and i wonder what
> that is/was about, does anybody remember by chance? Was that a staging
> area for mob or somesuch?
>
> Maybe it's an artifact that was pruned already?

Hi,

Indeed I did delete that branch (and another one) remotely not that
long ago (because of presumably little public interest).

As to what it was,  I think there was a strategy used two or three
times in the early days, that was to apply just selected patches from
mob to master and then reset mob, and that "mob-stuff" branch then was
a "for-the-records" collection of not-applied patches.

See also https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2009-12/msg00003.html

Incidentally short time before the status of mob has been described as
"completely dysfunctional"

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2009-09/msg00008.html

-- gr



> The last couple of commits on that branch are listed below.
>
> AFAICS the "warn about incorrect use of output_*" by using an enum did
> never end up on mob.
> We seem to have --{no-,}whole-archive by now, so that's obsolete i
> guess. And the elf-interpreter toggle is in there, too, so that's fine.
>
> Not sure what you would think about the idea i toyed with in "add
> --enable-shared, part1". IIRC the idea was to cut down on memory usage
> when running many tcc processes or something along those lines.
>
> thanks!
>
> $ git log -n7 origin/mob-stuff
> commit bfa394dab88cb417bb540c32647f04d08e9838af (origin/mob-stuff)
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 2 15:55:48 2009 +0200
>
>      Move bounds-checking code to a bcheck.a
>
>      ... to avoid undefined references to __bound_new_region()
>      (when using a libtcc1_s.so instead of libtcc1.a) on i386.
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>
> commit a39d055d0e666b152df87b4a603c670c3af37d68
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 2 15:55:48 2009 +0200
>
>      Handle --whole-archive
>
>      Support and document -Wl,--{no-,}whole-archive.
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>
> commit f0e8b23d02a4c06789b4b8876c65866a237ce570
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Sep 1 13:32:34 2009 +0200
>
>      Implement -m{uclibc,glibc} to choose elf_interp
>
>        Support -muclibc and -mglibc (default) to choose between the elf
>        interpreter like gcc does.
>
>        $ ./tcc -o hi-glibc hello.c
>        $ ./tcc -muclibc -o hi-uclibc hello.c
>        $ readelf -l hi-* | egrep "(^File: | interpreter)"
>      File: hi-glibc
>            [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]
>      File: hi-uclibc
>            [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0]
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>
> commit 83cb1364a606fa9fbff450a65ab68e09a5bb4e42
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 2 12:03:51 2009 +0200
>
>      Revert "add --enable-shared, part1"
>
>      This reverts commit 9257c5221ea4f095d813082716f786c6c5d23321.
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>
> commit d90eb2008b62d19f70bdd14bdf9d784b8789da5d
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Sep 1 17:04:42 2009 +0200
>
>      add --enable-shared, part1
>
>        Build a libtcc.so and link the tcc binary against it.
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>
> commit 8a555345e3faa37ff0b2c0b84ae1f42358400923
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Sep 1 14:27:41 2009 +0200
>
>      warn about incorrect use of output_*
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
>
> commit 3a40b44938d59b71d0c010579d9bd9f05e7eed46
> Author: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Sep 1 11:52:51 2009 +0200
>
>      allow for non-stripped install
>
>      Signed-off-by: aldot <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>