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Friday 29 November 2002 20:43 skrev George Shapovalov: |
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> Hi guys. |
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> Yes this would make for a very interesting investigation ;). |
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After investigating a little I found that it fails compiling something like |
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95% or more of all packages without modification because it's so strictly |
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ANSI-C, so tcc is not yet an option for most C-programs.. (If it compiles |
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with "gcc -strict" it should compile with tcc) But for Eiffel (and other |
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compile-to-c languages) I think it's really great because the c-code it |
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generates is extremly fast ("unreadable optimized c-pseudo-assembler"), but |
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takes a LONG LONG time to compile with gcc.. |
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> Just a small opinion here: |
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> On Friday 29 November 2002 11:22, Per Wigren wrote: |
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> > Friday 29 November 2002 19:43 skrev Karl Trygve Kalleberg: |
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> > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:41:12 +0100 |
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> [skipped] |
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> > I don't know about XFree, but I don't think there should be a problem.. |
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> > TCC supports 100% of ANSI-C, 90% of C99-specific things and the most |
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> > common GCC-extensions.. I read somewhere that they pass all test but 10 |
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> > or so in GCC's testsuite (which has THOUSANDS of tests!).. |
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> So this does have a potential for breakage in various packages. Even if it |
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> were 100% gcc compatible we shouldn't trust it without doing a really |
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> extensive testing. Besides many people will choose to have a "more |
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> coherent" system based solely on gcc and will be glad to pay the price in |
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> compile time. Therefore I think use of tcc should be made optional (even |
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> opt-in in the beginning if you ask me). New use flag suits this very well |
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> and I think is completely warranted (and for the same reason I do not like |
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> putting this into DEPEND). |
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> George |
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Agreed. But I still think gobo should be an exception.. 3 hours on my pretty |
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fast machine vs a minute using tcc is a HUGE win! The Gobo tools are only |
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used when compiling other Eiffel-packages anyway.. It contains |
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Eiffel-replacements for C-stuff like flex, bison/yacc, cpp (preprocessor) and |
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more.. It's not used at runtime.. |
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// Wigren |
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