Re: question about linker

On 11.12.2024 16:03, David Brown wrote:

On 11/12/2024 06:37, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
 

Concerning tcc, they have explicit endorsment from gawk developer:
he likes compile speed and says that gawk compiles fine using tcc.

Who was that?

What I find documented in the GNU Awk package was this:

     _The Tiny C Compiler, 'tcc'_

     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.

     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)

     [...]

     (1) This bit the maintainer once.

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".

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).

Is that so that you can say I am wrong to claim "no one" cares about tcc
support, because you have found 1 person who has used it?  I admit it -
"no one" was an exaggeration.

To be fair, a "project" (like GNU Awk) is more than just one person.

Janis