Le jeudi 9 janvier 2014, 17:13:41 Michael Matz a écrit :
> 
> Yeah.  tcc meanwhile also emits references to other symbols that aren't in
> libgcc.  E.g. __floatundixf.

Indeed.

> 
> > Or maybe now that arm can uses libtcc1 this option could be just
> > removed. If there is some value in keeping it, it could also be nice
> > that tcc can work directly with libgcc (and thus have va_* macros
> > builtin, see stdarg.h from gcc and gcc's source code).
> 
> You can't without providing the implementation currently residing in
> libtcc directly as inline variant in the code generator (as libgcc doesn't
> contain any implementation of that stuff).  As the x86_64 variant of
> stdargs is a bit convoluted (as in, more that three/four instructions)
> that doesn't seem like the best solution.  So, ...

That's what gcc does but indeed, tcc tries to be smaller and faster than gcc 
so indeed.

> 
> > Dear users, does any of you see value in the --with-libgcc switch of
> > configure?
> 
> ... if the possibility of using libgcc should be retained, then yes,
> libtcc needs to be linked in additionally.  Which seems to make sense as
> that lib indeed is supposed to provide the runtime parts that the compiler
> (here tcc) specifically wants to rely on.

Right, I'm tempted to remove the libgcc switch but I need to look again at the 
commit that introduced it for the reasons.

Best regards,

Thomas

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