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Date:      Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:02:16 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jean-Marc Lienher <jml@oksidizer.com>
Subject:   Re: Alternative compiler toolchain ?
Message-ID:  <m3veqhzdev.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060701032139.GB4915@dan.emsphone.com> (Dan Nelson's message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:21:39 -0500")
References:  <000f01c69ca5$02fa8ff0$6400a8c0@s2003> <20060701032139.GB4915@dan.emsphone.com>

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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



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