Re: [Tinycc-devel] Porting TCC to RTLinux

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:23:41PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:25 pm, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to get tinycc-0.9.23 to exist as an embedded facility in the 
>> linux kernel.
>
>The ability to build tcc as a kernel module makes a certain amount of sense.
>
>> So far so good -- I ripped out the userspace-dependent portions of TCC and 
>> got rid of its dependencies on things like the C libraries.
>
>I'm under the vague impression that tccboot already did that.
>
>> I reduced it  
>> to a program that can only compile strings only (no files) and can't use 
>> include files, etc.
>
>Somebody wanted to add a facility to tcc so it could accept C code from stdin, 
>and somebody else _did_ add a -E option so it could spit out a preprocessed 
>file.  Having a userspace tcc pass a preprocessed file to a kernel tcc module 
>sounds amusing...
>
>The accept-from-stdin thing was just a request for feature, I didn't see 
>anybody come up with a patch.  I haven't been particularly active since 

hm?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2006-10/msg00103.html

It was just an idea, If you'd be so kind and don't make it rely on
/dev/*, then please sent an "official" [patch] here :)

cheers,