Re: [Tinycc-devel] Plan9 extensions

[Christian Jullien]

Hi, I'm not an official maintainer so I can't tell you to push the patches.
However, I suggest you surround Plan9 extensions with something like:

#ifdef TCC_TARGET_PLAN9
#endif

Also have a look at conftest.c

To summarize, if adopted, your patches related to plan9 should be detected
by ./configure and protected by TCC_TARGET_PLAN9 and, if needed, also adapt
the test suite accordingly.
Maintainers will decide what to do with your other patches improving the
quality of error messages.

IMHO, it's more important (for you) to start with PLAN9 support and later
propose a second and unrelated patch for the error messages.

My concern is also how you'll maintain the Plan9? Ideally, you should be the
Plan9 maintainer and test about every commits to see if Plan9 continues to
work with mod.

M2c.

C.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tinycc-devel [mailto:tinycc-devel-bounces+eligis=orange.fr@nongnu.org]
On Behalf Of Elijah Stone
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 01:39
To: tinycc-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Tinycc-devel] Plan9 extensions

Hi all,

Attached patches implement the plan9 extensions to c, also implemented by
gcc&co.  It also improves the quality of error messages for code using
typedefs.

I've split the patch into two parts: the first implements the simpler half
of the extension and the error improvements, while the second, which
implements the other half of the extension, is somewhat invasive and may not
be worthwhile to support.  (Particularly since it can be simulated
in-userspace using _Generic.)

Cheers,

  -E