README: Update to add info about GNU Mes and bootstrappable-tinycc.
* README: Add header on GNU Mes and bootstrappable-tinycc.
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Bootstrappable TCC/TinyCC -- Tiny C Compiler's bootstrappable fork
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Bootstrappable TCC is a fork from mainline TCC development, that
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started spring 2017 from
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commit 307b7b183d4ee56e74090b0e525d6a587840e31f
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Author: Aron BARATH <baratharon@caesar.elte.hu>
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Date: Tue May 16 07:03:26 2017 +0200
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the R_X86_64_GOTOFF64 relocation was missing
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and can be compiled by MesCC (https://gnu.org/s/mes).
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Initially the plan was to make TinyCC itself "bootstrappable"
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(https://bootstrappable.org).
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The best way to do so would be to gradually simplify the
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implementation of TinyCC by restricting the use of language constructs
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to a well-defined subset of C. In bootstrapping each stage or
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compiler adds functionality; a compiler that is written in itself --a
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so-called `self-hosting' compiler--is not considered to be
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bootstrappable.
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At the time this vision was not received with much enthousiasm
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https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-09/msg00019.html
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so I decided to fork TinyCC and instead grow MesCC (a bootstrappable
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sub-C compiler in a subset of Guile Scheme) into a full C99 compiler.
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Currently, the Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap of the GNU Guix System
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(https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/)
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uses bootstrappable-tinycc.
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The fork consists of about 12 patches
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cee58e0 build: Support building from bootstrap-mes.
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39de356 bootstrappable: Force static link.
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2b6271d bootstrappable: Work around MesCC bug.
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379c62d bootstrappable: add tcc.h include guards to include location.
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274bd06 bootstrappable: Handle libtcc1.a.
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6ae9aa4 bootstrappable: Skip tidy_section_headers.
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a130ce1 bootstrappable: HAVE_FLOAT.
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de906df bootstrappable: HAVE_BITFIELD.
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540ba0b bootstrappable: HAVE_LONG_LONG.
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306f677 bootstrappable: Work around Nyacc-0.80.42 bug.
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9c97705 build: bootstrap build scripts.
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584478f bootstrappable: Remove non-free grep test.
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that work around bugs and missing C language features in MesCC. Only
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three of these are really interesting: the HAVE_* patches that allow
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for stepwise introduction of bitfields, doubles/floats and long longs.
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In time, I hope we can remove the need for this fork; either by
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upstreaming some bootstrappable work or else by maturing MesCC.
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At the time of writing, mainline (non-bootstrappable) tinycc lives
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here
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https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git
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https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
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--
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janneke
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Tiny C Compiler - C Scripting Everywhere - The Smallest ANSI C compiler
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