On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:29:08AM +0100, Jens Staal wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:37:39PM -0500, stephen Turner wrote: > > From a user perspective it has been a treat. I had issues with the GNU > > M4 compiling on a embedded musl and PCC system but this M4 compiled > > quick and clean. The only potential downside i can think of is it may > > not be well maintained. last i checked the website there were no new > > releases from when we tweaked the make file. There is another project > > called elftoolchain which replaces binutils but i haven't tested it > > yet. > > > > This m4 variant is very portable. If I remember correctly I could > compile it on Plan9/APE once (maybe with some modifications). Also, the > elftoolchain is an interesting project but you never hear much about it > and I guess the FreeBSD people are now moving to the LLVM > variants/alternatives to binutils when applicable?
llvm is a massive c++ object oriented brain fuckage. It's so accute that we are talking mental pathology here. This is a "by the book" "corporate-like" fuckage. gcc is going amok (due to the same "corporate-like" sick people), but the damage is order of magnitude less than with llvm. The right answer from a suckless philosphy: have minimal binutils. Something which does only and cleanly minimum ELF64 objects (maybe taylored only for x86-64 and ARM64). It seems that some people are trying to complex-ify ELF as much as they can though, all for the wrong reasons, as usual (ELF symbol versioning...). -- Sylvain
