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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jean-Marc Lienher <jml@oksidizer.com>
Subject: Re: Alternative compiler toolchain ?
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> writes:

> In the last episode (Jul 01), Jean-Marc Lienher said:
>  
>> I've found some other compilers on the web:
>> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/  (LGPL)
>
> tcc is very fast, probably has the most modern C parser of the lot, and
> might even be able to build world except that the shared binaries it
> generates aren't able to be loaded by our rtld.  It looks like tcc only
> emits the bare minimum to get Linux to run the executable, and I don't
> know enough about the ELF format to fill in the blanks.

I never managed to get tcc compiled stuff (GNU libc or dietlibc) to run
under Linux, but haven't pursued the issue beyond that point.

-- 
Matthias Andree