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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: anyone interested in helping fixing the 'tcc' compiler ?
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Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> writes:
> I have recently started playing with the Tiny C Compuler (lang/tcc)
> which is amazingly useful for prototyping,

Looks pretty useless to me:

des@ds4 /usr/ports/lang/tcc% sudo make install clean
Password:
=3D=3D=3D>  tcc-0.9.25 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.
*** Error code 1

> However, from the description it does not seem a horribly
> hard problem. Perhaps someone with a bit of knowledge on
> how our ld-elf.so works should not have a hard time pinpointing
> the problem so that other people can fix it ?

Actually, ld-elf.so is not that scary.  Take a look at rtld(1) and start
setting debugging envars.  Set up a jail so you can mess around with the
jail's ld-elf.so without bricking your system.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no