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Subject: Mes 0.7 released
I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.7, representing 32
commits over 4 weeks. Mescc now behaves more like a regular C
compiler: supporting -E, -c, -o options and with a more complete set
of header files [stubs]; enough to work on compiling tinycc's tcc.c
albeit a somewhat modified version[8].
* About
Mes aims to create full source bootstrapping for GuixSD: an
entirely source-based bootstrap path. The target is to [have
GuixSD] boostrap from a minimal, easily inspectable binary --that
should be readable as source-- into something close to R6RS
Scheme.
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.
The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector,
a library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's
LALR[1], Pre-R6RS portable syntax-case[2] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt
Wette's Nyacc[3] Guile's PEG[4] --and test suite just barely
enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and simple C-compiler
(mescc.mes) that can produce the second initial ELF binary from
binary from mes.c, in only about 2h30'.
Mes was inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[5]
-- John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's[6] source/binary packaging
transparency and Jeremiah Orians's stage0[7] bootstrap project.
* Download
git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
wget https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=v0.7 -O mes-0.7.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 0.7 since 0.6
** Core
*** The minimal C reader is now always included; dependencies
on i686-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc and binary read-0-32.mo have been
dropped, these are now optional.
** Language
*** Mes reader now supports octal numbers #oXXX.
*** 10 new functions
current-output-port, getopt-long, negate, open-output-file,
option-ref, set-current-output-port, string-rindex, string-suffix?,
with-ouwith-output-to-file, with-output-to-port.
** Mescc
*** Mescc can now be installed and used alongside a gcc installation.
*** Mescc can now handle const anywhere.
*** Mescc now supports array fields in structs.
*** Mescc now supports forward declarations and typedef.
*** Mescc can now handle comments anywhere.
*** Mescc now supports addition and substraction for enum field values.
*** Mescc now supports anonymous enums.
*** Mescc now supports all C99 header files needed to compile tcc.c.
*** build: C sources are now preprocessed separately, then compiled and linked.
*** build: mlibc and C sources are now compiled separately and then linked.
*** mlibc has been moved from Scheme snippets into C.
*** Mescc now supports -c, -D, -E, -I and -o options.
**** open now supports optional third mode parameter.
** Noteworthy bug fixes
*** string-index now supports function predicate.
*** number->string for radix > 10 now produces `a' instead of `:'.
Greetings,
janneke
[1] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
[2] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
[3] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
[4] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
[5] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%25201.5%2520Programmers%2520Manual.pdf
[6] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
[7] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
[8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc