Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:04:21 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua Cc: hsu@idiom.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rnordier@iafrica.com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: TenDRA C/C++ compiler (fwd) Message-ID: <199802162204.AAA04038@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <34E76223.AACD7850@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> from Ruslan Shevchenko at "Feb 15, 98 11:46:18 pm"
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Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > Jeffrey Hsu wrote: > > > Anyone feel up to a new compiler port? > > > > Just ported it to SCO Open Server (it's differs from SCO 3 for TenDRA). > > [ ...] I have been using it on a FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE box here for the last two days. I haven't checked the C++ side of things, but as a C compiler it's impressive. > In principle, porting is not very hard, but few aspects: > 1. tcc is POSIX ISO compiler. > it mean, that we must modify our includes (i.e. /usr/include/*) > to be ISO compliant in case __TCC__, and correct handle some > TenDRA specific stuff. > or write specific includes for TCC ( which, in generally, very bad) > So, if we want to create command for tcc porting, We must have something > with commit privelegies. Actually, no. One of the main design features of TenDRA is that you *don't* have to modify system headers (you modify API definitions instead). This means you can write (say) SVID3 programs, even if your libraries aren't particularly SVID compatible. (I just compiled a whole bunch of UNIX95 API programs, even though FreeBSD's UNIX95 API support is rather limited.) My impression is that the TenDRA compiler is a really important addition to free software, and deserves a lot of attention from anyone interested in portability across UNIX systems, or in the various ANSI/ISO, POSIX, XPG standards ... or just in a very solid, non-GPLed compiler. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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