Re: on using 8cc in reproducible bootstrap process

2017-06-18 Thread Rui Ueyama
Hi Jan, Thank you for your interest in 8cc. 8cc is indeed a C compiler that supports most C11 features. However, I don't think it is being used seriously by anyone, so honestly I'd doubt it is a good choice to be used as part of your bootstrapping process. tcc have been much more tested. The most

Re: on using 8cc in reproducible bootstrap process

2017-06-18 Thread Mike Gran
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 03:52:23PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hi! > > The next leap forward is to compile gcc. I have been looking at > compiling Tinycc[3]. A couple of weeks ago, rain1 has been working with > the tcc developers to succeed in compiling gcc using tcc[4]. > which one would

on using 8cc in reproducible bootstrap process

2017-06-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi! I am working to create a full source bootstrap path for GuixSD[0]. I have written Mes[1] a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter prototype in C and a C compiler (Mescc) in Scheme. The prototype Scheme interpreter in C will be redone in stage0's hex2[2] at an opportune moment which will give