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Subject: Mes 0.10 released
I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.10, representing 82
commits over 6 weeks. Mescc now compiles a bootstrappable-modified
TinyCC into a mes-tcc that in turn can successfully compile a trivial
C program.
* About
Mes[0] aims to create full source bootstrapping for GuixSD[1] as
part of the bootstrappable builds[2] project.
It currently consists of a mutual self-hosting [close to Guile-]
Scheme interpreter prototype in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler in
[Guile] Scheme. This C prototype will be rewritten in stage0[3]
M1 assembly (or possibly stage2 slow-LISP, or ...).
The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector,
a library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's
LALR[4], Pre-R6RS portable syntax-case[5] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt
Wette's Nyacc[6], Guile's PEG[7] --and test suite just barely
enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and simple C-compiler
(mescc.mes).
The simple C compiler can compile a modified TinyCC[8] that is
starting to work! A gcc-compiled tcc is known[9] to compile GCC.
Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[10]
-- John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging
transparency and Jeremiah Orians's stage0 ~300 byte self-hosting
hex assembler.
* Download
git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
wget https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=v0.10 -O mes-0.10.tar.gz
Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and
installed in Guix[SD] by the usual
guix package -f guix.scm
* Changes in 0.10 since 0.9
** Core
*** 2 new functions
logand, lognot.
** Mescc
*** Mes now includes M1 sources for full source bootstrapping up to tcc.
*** Mescc now depends on Nyacc 0.81.0.
*** Mescc now compiles a mes-tcc that compiles a trivial C to a running a.out.
*** Mescc now supports several (as used my tinycc) struct by value assignments.
*** Mescc now has _start in a separate crt1.c.
*** Mescc now supports initializer arithmetic.
*** Mescc now supports arrays of struct of arbitrary size.
*** Mescc now supports pointer arithmetic.
*** Mescc now defines __i386__, __linux__.
*** Mescc now supports --*p, ++*p.
*** Mescc now supports int foo[bar] = {baz,...}.
*** Mescc now supports \x00 in strings in M1.
*** Mescc now supports complex enum expressions. Thanks, rain1!
*** Mescc now supports short.
*** Mescc now supports foo.bar = foo.baz = bla.
*** Mescc now supports foo = bar < baz and comparison permutations.
*** Mescc now supports (anonymous) structs in unions.
*** Mescc now writes M1 strings if possible.
**** 2 improved mlibc functions
malloc, realloc.
**** 13 new mlibc functions
fclose, fgetc, fprintf, fwrite, memcpy, memmove, memset, snprintf, strcat,
strchr, strrchr, strtoull, vnsprintf.
**** 15 new tinycc-support tests
76-pointer-arithmetic.c, 77-pointer-assign.c, 78-union-struct.c,
79-int-array.c, 7a-struct-char-array.c, 7b-struct-int-array.c,
7c-dynarray.c, 7d-cast-char.c, 7e-struct-array-access.c,
7f-struct-pointer-arithmetic.c, 7g-struct-byte-word-field.c,
7h-struct-assign.c, 7i-struct-struct.c, 7j-strtoull.c,
7k-for-each-elem.c.
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** Mescc has many fixes for foo.bar[baz], foo[bar].baz with ./-> permutations.
*** Many bugs and limitations in mescc have been fixed and removed.
Greetings,
janneke
[0] https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
[2] http://bootstrappable.org
[3] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
[4] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
[5] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
[6] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
[7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
[8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
[9] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
[10] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf