Re: [Tinycc-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Fix gv for long longs

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 05 September 2008 14:08:48 Daniel Glöckner wrote:
> At this point I would like to remind those who pick up the patches
> that there are two other mails by me with uncommitted fixes:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2003-10/msg00044.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2008-08/msg00007.html

Well, I'm no longer picking up patches.  When the 0.9.24 release came out, I 
pretty much lost interest in my fork.

My objection all along has been that CVS is not a real source control system, 
and no modern project should be burdened with it.  CVS doesn't even 
understand changesets.  You were kind enough to post your patches to the 
list: if they went directly into CVS (as Grischka does, although he only 
really seems to care about the windows target), I couldn't see what files got 
touched in what groups, because CVS simply wasn't designed to track that 
information.

I can't even go "how many changes were checked into the project in the month 
of August", because cvs thinks about individual files, and doesn't understand 
that a project is made up of ore than one, or that the same change can touch 
more than one file.  (According to 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/tinycc/?root=tinycc the project hasn't had 
a checkin in four months, although that's just a guess from looking down the 
list at the age field of EVERY DARN FILE), including the windows 
subdirectory.

I have an enormous todo list for tinycc.  No modern compiler can be relevant 
without generating x86-64 code, but there are simpler and more fundamental 
things it needs just as badly.  For example, I wanted to redo the command 
line parsing logic to work like busybox: call it like ld and it understands 
linker arguments, call it like as and it jumps straight to the inline 
assembler.  It can easily work as "strip", and it would be easy enough to 
grab the uClibc code for readelf and ldd and whip up an nm and objdump and 
ar...  (And if you do all that, adding support 
for "-Wl,--dynamic-linker,/blah" becomes trivial.  And without doing that, 
adding support for that is an amazingly ugly hack.)

All that's not actually very hard, I've done it before and most of the code is 
already there.  But before I touch tinycc again, I need to deal with the fact 
that my fork isn't based on 0.9.24.  There are changes in CVS that I need to 
look at to make what I'm working on relevant again, but that involves dealing 
with CVS.  And it wouldn't be the last time.  And I just haven't been able to 
bring myself to care.

If this project decides to move off of CVS, let me know.  But it's 2008, CVS 
is dead, and I've run out of the patience necromancy requires.

>   Daniel

Rob