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Subject: Mes 0.15 released
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I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.15, representing 45
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commits over 3 weeks. The GNU toolchain is getting bootstrapped!
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As of 0.14, Mes+MesCC compiles a self-hosting TinyCC. Using the 0.15
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Mes C library, this TinyCC can build the GNU tools triplet:
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binutils-2.14, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5.
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This means that we can build a GNU toolchain that depends only on a
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critical 1MB ASCII M1 seed. GuixSD currently uses a ~250MB binary
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seed to build gcc.
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Next targets are: upstream the Mes bootstrap to GuixSD, build a
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Gcc-4.7 and Glibc-2.23, bootstrap utilities like bison, flex, grep,
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sed..., replace GuixSD's bootstrap for x86 and reduce the 1MB ASCII M1
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seed to ~5000 LOC/~100KB of M2 source, which is a restricted subset of
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C.
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Packages are available from Guix's wip-bootstrap branch.
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* About
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Mes[0] aims to help create full source bootstrapping for GuixSD[1]
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as part of the bootstrappable builds[2] project.
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It currently consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter
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prototype in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler in Scheme. This C
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prototype is being simplified to be transpiled by M2-Planet[3].
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The Scheme interpreter prototype (mes.c) has a Garbage Collector,
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a library of loadable Scheme modules-- notably Dominique Boucher's
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LALR[4], pre-R6RS portable syntax-case[5] with R7RS ellipsis, Matt
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Wette's Nyacc[6], Guile's PEG[7] --and test suite just barely
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enough to support a simple REPL (repl.mes) and simple C-compiler
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MesCC.
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Mes+MesCC can compile an only slightly patched TinyCC[8] that is
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self-hosting. Using the Mes C library, this tcc can now build the
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GNU tools triplet: binutils-2.14, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5.
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Mes is inspired by The Maxwell Equations of Software: LISP-1.5[9]
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-- John McCarthy page 13, GNU Guix's source/binary packaging
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transparency and Jeremiah Orians's stage0[10] ~300 byte self-hosting
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hex assembler.
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* Download
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git clone https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
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wget https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes/-/archive/v0.15/mes-0.15.tar.gz
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Mes runs from the source tree and can also be built, packaged and
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installed in Guix[SD] by the usual
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guix package -f guix.scm
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* Changes in 0.15 since 0.14
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** Core
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*** Support fork, exec, waitpid.
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*** Boot-0 loading has been refactored.
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*** MesCC now has out of the box Geiser support.
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** Language
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*** 2 new functions
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drop, drop-right.
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** MesCC
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*** MesCC and Mes Lib C can now build binutils-2.30, gcc-2.95.3 and glibc-2.2.5.
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*** MesCC now provides dummy crti.o, crtn.o so that tcc needs not be patched for those.
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*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling glibc-2.2.25.
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*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling gcc-2.95.3
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*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling binutils-2.30.
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*** Mes Lib C now supports compiling m4-1.4.
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*** Mes Lib C has been split into archs: gcc, x86-mes-gcc and x86-mes.
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*** MesCC now has a posixy command line interface.
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**** 70 new functions
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abs, access, alarm, alloca, atexit, atol, bcmp, bcopy, brk, bzero,
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chmod, clearerr, close, dup, dup2, execve, fabs, fcntl, fdgets, feof,
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fgets, fileno, fork, freopen, fscanf, fstat, fsync, getcwd, getgid,
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getpid, getrusage, getuid, index, ioctl, isalnum, isalpha, isascii,
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iscntrl, isprint, ispunct, kill, link, lseek, lstat, mkdir, mktemp,
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nanosleep, open, perror, pipe, raise, read, rename, rindex, rmdir,
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sbrk, sbrk, setitimer, signal, sleep, stat, strcspn, strdup, strerror,
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strncat, strpbrk, strspn, unlink, unsetenv, waitpid.
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**** 23 new stubs
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abort, atof, bsearch, bsearch, chown, ctime, fpurge, freadahead,
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frexp, getpwnam, gmtime, mbstowcs, pclose, popen, rewind, setbuf,
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sigsetmask, strftime, sys_siglist, system, times, umask, utime.
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**** 10 new C tests
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51-strcmp.c, 70-printf.c, 87-sscanf.c, 90-strpbrk.c, 91-fseek.c,
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92-stat.c, 93-fread-fwrite.c, 94-unsetenv.c, 95-signal.c, 96-strto.c.
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Greetings,
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janneke
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[0] https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
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[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix
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[2] http://bootstrappable.org
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[3] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet
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[4] https://github.com/schemeway/lalr-scm
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[5] https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/old-psyntax.html
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[6] https://www.nongnu.org/nyacc/
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[7] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/PEG-Parsing.html
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[8] https://gitlab.com/janneke/tinycc
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[9] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
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[10] https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
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