From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 16 14:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14593 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-31-98-118.iafrica.com [196.31.98.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14383; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:05:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@iafrica.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id AAA04038; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:04:24 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199802162204.AAA04038@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: TenDRA C/C++ compiler (fwd) In-Reply-To: <34E76223.AACD7850@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> from Ruslan Shevchenko at "Feb 15, 98 11:46:18 pm" To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:04:21 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hsu@idiom.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rnordier@iafrica.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-hackers" in the body of the message