At Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:54:43 -0400 (EDT), Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> wrote: Subject: pcc [was Re: valgrind] > > >> I've been making very-spare-time progress on building my own > >> compiler on and off for some years now; perhaps I'll eventually get > >> somewhere. [...] > > Have you looked at pcc? http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/ and in our source > > tree in src/external/bsd/pcc . > > No, I haven't. I should - it may well end up being quicker to move an > existing compiler in the directions I want to go than to write my own.
I would like to add my voice too.
I _really_ like valgrind. It is immensely valuable and infinitely
better than any of the compiler so-called "sanitizers" (except maybe the
Undefined Behaviour sanitizer in Clang, which, sadly, is a necessary
evil if one is to use such a modern language bastardizer like Clang).
It's a little ugly to use, and it's a very tough task-master, but I'm
really sad that I cannot use it easily and regularly on NetBSD.
(I'm just about as sad that it no longer works on modern macOS either.)
I also really like PCC. (I remember teething pains getting used to it
back when it first replaced Ritchie C on my university's PDP-11/60, but
once I actually used it for real code (i.e. assignments in those days),
and soon on the Vax too, I really liked it.)
I'm really sad that I still cannot build NetBSD entirely with PCC as the
native and only default compiler.
I would like to do whatever I can to help fix these two problems, but
I'm not anywhere near able to even begin to fix them on my own (well I
could hack on NetBSD to make it work with PCC, but I don't want to be a
one-man-band on a project of that scale).
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