On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:21 Greg A. Woods <wo...@planix.ca> wrote: > At Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:54:43 -0400 (EDT), Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> > wrote: > Subject: pcc [was Re: valgrind] > > > > >> I've been making very-spare-time progress on building my own > > >> compiler on and off for some years now; perhaps I'll eventually get > > >> somewhere. [...] > > > Have you looked at pcc? http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/ and in our source > > > tree in src/external/bsd/pcc . > > > > No, I haven't. I should - it may well end up being quicker to move an > > existing compiler in the directions I want to go than to write my own. > > I would like to add my voice too. > > I _really_ like valgrind. It is immensely valuable and infinitely > better than any of the compiler so-called "sanitizers" (except maybe the > Undefined Behaviour sanitizer in Clang, which, sadly, is a necessary > evil if one is to use such a modern language bastardizer like Clang). > > It's a little ugly to use, and it's a very tough task-master, but I'm > really sad that I cannot use it easily and regularly on NetBSD. > > (I'm just about as sad that it no longer works on modern macOS either.) > > > I also really like PCC. (I remember teething pains getting used to it > back when it first replaced Ritchie C on my university's PDP-11/60, but > once I actually used it for real code (i.e. assignments in those days), > and soon on the Vax too, I really liked it.) > > I'm really sad that I still cannot build NetBSD entirely with PCC as the > native and only default compiler. >
Is there a case for another concerted campaign on pcc like ragge@ did those years ago? -bch > > I would like to do whatever I can to help fix these two problems, but > I'm not anywhere near able to even begin to fix them on my own (well I > could hack on NetBSD to make it work with PCC, but I don't want to be a > one-man-band on a project of that scale). > > -- > Greg A. Woods <gwo...@acm.org> > > Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <wo...@robohack.ca> > Planix, Inc. <wo...@planix.com> Avoncote Farms <wo...@avoncote.ca> >
