Re: [Tinycc-devel] .rept .endr support

[Fabrice Bellard]

Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read with great interest about tccboot and the ability to compile the
> linux kernel quickly with tcc. There were a few mods required to the 2.4.26
> kernel to get it to compile with tcc. One of them was .rept and .endr
> support.
>
> As I'd like to start playing with tcc, I was thinking about adding such
> support myself as a contribution back to your project. I started to hack in
> support for rept/endr support into tccasm.c:asm_parse_directive().
> Specifically, I was thinking of simply creating a BufferedFile object that
> captured the code between the .rept and .endr asm directives, and then cause
> tcc to process this N times as specified by .rept.  Would that be a viable
> approach?

It is better to record the tokens between .rept and .endr. Otherwise you 
will have problems with the preprocessor. I did not try to compile the 
2.6 kernel. It would be interesting if you could try and see what are 
the problems (note: .rept/.endr do not seem to be used in such kernels !).

Fabrice.