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Message-ID: <20110429194632.GC277@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:46:33 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Other C compiler
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:29:20PM +0200, nicolas@...lier-web.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, sorry for my bad english, i'm french and i son't know if i
> can handle a whole conversation...
> I am interested in musl, because i was looking for a light C library for
> my small linux projects.
>
> Congratulations for your work !
> I read the source code quickly, and it's a really good job.
>
> Would it be possible to use an other C compiler than gcc ?
> My objective is to have one of the smallest GNU/Linux system.
>
> For example, is it possible to use Portable C Compiler or even TinyCC ?
It is definitely possible both to compile pcc linked to musl, and to
compile musl using pcc. However, the version of pcc I have tried has
some bugs that affect musl, including serious floating point bugs that
results in printf going into an infinite loop and smashing the stack
due to a loop not terminating on a floating point condition where it
should. Are you interested in helping debug this? I haven't tried
recent pcc releases again so it's possible that it's been fixed.
I have not tested TinyCC at all. When I first tried it, musl did not
have some machine-specific header stuff it needed, and it was
impossible to build. It's likely that it works now though, or that it
could be made to work without too much effort. I have no idea if
tinycc can be used to compile musl though.
> If yes, how to do that ?
Just put CC=pcc or CC=tcc in your config.mak file.
Rich
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