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Re: results with TinyCC/x86


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: results with TinyCC/x86
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:19:53 +0100
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Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Does GNU have a policy in place for supporting compilers?

Yes, and the policies are partially going in different directions:
  1) GNU packages should help other GNU packages [1].
  2) RMS occasionally reminds to focus the effort on GNU systems
     and GCC (as opposed to e.g. clang).

> In the past I've seen it stated in terms of market share. ...

Market share is not a directly important criteria for what GNU packages
should support.

Regarding TinyCC, Luca Saiu (who is indirectly working on GNU poke and
GNU epsilon) reported a problem regarding the combination of Gnulib and
TinyCC. That's why I spent a bit of time to take a look.

> Maybe you should look at TinyCC usage before you decide to spend a lot of time
> on it.

You know how Gnulib development works: we spend, say, a week on portability
to FreeBSD, then don't do much for FreeBSD for a year or two, until we
get prompted by bug reports. Likewise for other OSes and for compilers.
TinyCC is not different. It got a bit of attention this week, and probably
none more for the rest of the year (unless the TinyCC developers make
a 1.0 release).

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.en.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-03/msg00011.html




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