On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:33 PM Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Amy, > > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 03:31:49PM -0800, Amy Parker wrote: > > Hello! My name's Amy. I'm really impressed by the work done to make > > Clang (and the LLVM toolchain overall) able to compile the kernel. > > Figured I might as well donate my monkey hours to helping make it run > > on other compilers as well. I haven't been able to find any that use > > the same arguments structure as GCC and Clang (read: you can pass it > > in as CC=compilername in your $MAKEOPTS). Any compilers along that > > route anyone here has worked with that I could work with? > > If you're interested, you should have a look at TCC (tiny CC) : > > https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git Thank you for linking this! Wasn't able to find this git repository for it - only binaries for nonfree operating systems (yuck). > > It compiles extremely fast, implements some subsets of gcc (a few > attributes for example), but is far from being able to compile a kernel Well, we'll see what I can do with that. :) > (at least last time I checked). Its speed makes it very convenient for > development. I made some efforts to make haproxy support it (and provided > some fixes to tcc) as it compiles the whole project in 0.5 second instead > of ~10 seconds with a modern gcc. It could probably compile a kernel in > 15-20 seconds if properly supported, and this could be particularly handy > for development and testing. Oh wow, yeah, that would be great. Thank you for pointing this out! Compiling the kernel in 15-20 seconds instead of the current *couple minutes* would definitely be great. > > Regards, > Willy Best regards, Amy Parker (she/her/hers)
