Re: [Tinycc-devel] TCC built using NOSTDLIB crashes on linux

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 21:23:49 KHMan wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> > I was trying to compile TCC using the -nostdlib option.
> >
> > (Here's my command (which works))
> > bash$ gcc -nostdlib -o tcc tcc.c /usr/lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/crti.o -ldl
> > -lc -lgcc
> > bash$
> >
> > (Here's my result (which is a crash))
> > bash$ ./tcc qwert
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > bash$
> >
> > Do you get this same error?  What's the cause?
> > (My system specs are Ubuntu 7.10, gcc 4.1.3)
>
> Time out. I think you should adjust your expectations a little
> bit. We are just a community list, and tcc has a severe lack of
> developer resources. I don't think the list should be in the
> business of providing tech support. People who dare to jump in and
> try out tcc must at least have a fair bit of self-sufficiency.
>
> Perhaps you can help us by diagnosing the problem (you can build
> it, so would you like to try some debugging?) and give us a useful
> lead so that one of the active developers on this list can issue a
> patch with the minimum of fuss. You can also try Rob Landley's
> fork and see if the same issue appears.

My build system's totally different, but I'm happy to help him with his issue.  
(I don't post much on a list I was asked to leave, but as long as my name's 
come up anyway...)

Did you try building a "hello world" program with that command line, to see if 
_that_ segfaults?

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.