Hi guys, Its occurred to me that one could write a really interesting debugger using libtcc. I'm sitting here making simple changes to some code and having to recompile and relink the whole thing for every change as I debug.
Instead of having to recompile changes as you make them to the code, TCC could simply compile on the fly. Since it IS the compiler, it would understand the structures and other details that debuggers can sometimes have trouble with, and it could debug without breakpoints by simply compiling and executing code line by line, effectively becoming a C interpretter. TCC is not only faster than GCC, but using libtcc so that its a seperate project instead of "fork" would be quite nice. Even if someone uses GCC for the final compile, using a debugger that could single step through code as changes are being made would be nice .. of course, there is the issue of maintaining the link information as addresses suddenly change, but I'm thinking TCC just has to remember the information in a hash or something as it will be generating the code on the fly anyway. Comments anyone? _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
