Re: question about linker

On 12.12.2024 15:37, bart wrote:

On 12/12/2024 14:03, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 11.12.2024 16:03, David Brown wrote:

On 11/12/2024 06:37, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
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Concerning tcc, they have explicit endorsment from gawk developer:
he likes compile speed and says that gawk compiles fine using tcc.

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Who was that?
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What I find documented in the GNU Awk package was this:
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      _The Tiny C Compiler, 'tcc'_
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      This compiler is _very_ fast, but it produces only mediocre code.
      It is capable of compiling 'gawk', and it does so well enough that
      'make check' runs without errors.
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      However, in the past the quality has varied, and the maintainer has
      had problems with it.  He recommends using it for regular
      development, where fast compiles are important, but rebuilding with
      GCC before doing any commits, in case 'tcc' has missed
      something.(1)
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      [...]
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      (1) This bit the maintainer once.
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That doesn't quite sound like the GNU Awk folks would think it's a good
tool or anything even close ("mediocre code", "well enough", "runs
without errors", "quality has varied", "had problems with it") And that
it's obviously not trustworthy given the suggestion: "rebuilding with
GCC before doing any commits".

 
This sounds like you imposing your own interpretion, and trying to
downplay the credibility of TCC.

You don't think all these words are a clear indication? - The original
text you see above is almost just a concatenation of all these negative
connoted words. It really doesn't need any own words or interpretation.

Aren't those original words, experiences, and suggestions clear to you?

(I have neither a reason nor an agenda to downplay any compiler. - Why
do you, again, make such imputations that are typically 98% wrong; in
your case yet even 100% wrong.)

 

And I cannot find any statement that "he likes compile speed", he just
stated that it is very fast (which seems to just have astonished him).

 
This looks like the original source:
 
[link snipped]

This webpage contains the same text as the file in the package that I
quoted; it came from the file  ./doc/gawkworkflow.info  packaged with
the GNU Awk tarfile.

Janis

 
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