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Subject: wip-bootstrap updated
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I've updated the wip-bootstrap branch[0] for Mes[1] 0.13. It has new
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mes-boot and tcc-boot packages. mes-boot is a bootstrap version of
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Mes; it only depends on mescc-tools and a previously compiled mes.M1
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seed. Likewise, tcc-boot depends on a precompiled tcc-seed. Also,
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tcc-boot uses a heavily patched version of the tcc sources.
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Mes 0.13 is the first release that can bootstrap a fairly functional
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tcc-boot. This bootstrapped tcc passes 67/68 C tests that were created
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for MesCC. It can compile a version if itself where float, long long
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and bitfield are patched out...but linking fails. This amazing
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compiler can now be played with by doing something like
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git checkout wip-bootstrap
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make
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./pre-inst-env guix build tcc-boot # may take ~2h
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./pre-inst-env guix environment --ad-hoc tcc-boot
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mes-tcc --help #duck and run
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The next big effort will be to make this mes-tcc fully functional and
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integrate this with GuixSD. To give you a taste of that,
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here's latest bug I'm currently looking at (pretty printed comments
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are only added when Guile runs MesCC, the problem is in LEA)
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$ diff -u ../mes-seed/mes.M1 src/mes.M1
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--- ../mes-seed/mes.M1 2018-05-01 18:49:37.312162270 +0200
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+++ src/mes.M1 2018-05-01 19:49:40.774770406 +0200
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@@ -35805,12 +33091,11 @@
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call32 %strcpy
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add____$i8,%esp !0x8
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test___%eax,%eax
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- # strcpy(buf + strlen(buf), "/mes/");
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- push___$i32 &_string_reader_read_list_266
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+ push___$i32 &_string_reader_read_list_265
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mov____%ebp,%eax
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- add____$i32,%eax %0x-200
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+ add____$i32,%eax %0x-800
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push___%eax
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- lea____0x32(%ebp),%eax %0x-200
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+ lea____0x32(%ebp),%eax %0x-800
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push___%eax
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call32 %strlen
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add____$i8,%esp !0x4
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We also need to remove some shortcuts that we took, most notably:
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mes-seed[3]. This seed consists of 1MB of M1 code. mes.M1 is
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produced by compiling mes.c using MesCC, the C compiler written in
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(Guile) Scheme that comes with Mes. Although that's really terrible,
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it's probably a big step forward: currently GuixSD uses ~250MB of
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binary seed: the bootstrap binaries.
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The plan is to replace the mes.M1 seed with mes.M2 and compile this
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new mes.M2 seed using the brand new M2-Planet[2]. M2 is basically
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simple C with structs, without preprocessor. This will reduce the
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seed size by a factor of 10 while making it much more readable.
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An excerpt of the TODO I keep in Mes' BOOTSTRAP document
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* TODO
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** have tcc-boot's mes-tcc compile a fully functional tcc
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*** mescc: fix unknown bug.
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*** mescc: support function-static.
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*** mescc: support/grok global static.
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*** mescc: support unsigned comparison, arithmetic.
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*** mescc: support long long (do we need long long to get long long in tcc)?
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*** mescc: support bitfield (do we need bitfield to get bitfield in tcc)?
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*** mescc: support float (do we need float to get float in tcc)?
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** have bootstrapped tcc compile gcc-4.7
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** remove or upstream patches from tcc-boot
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** prepare src/mes.c for M2-Planet[2] transpiler
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** integrate with GuixSD
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** x86_64, arm, the Hurd
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Greetings,
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janneke
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[0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-bootstrap
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[1] https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes
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[2] https://github.com/oriansj/m2-planet
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[3] https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes-seed
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