Re: Simple development GCC and G++

2010-09-28 Thread Michael Veksler
On 09/27/10 16:48, Paul Brook wrote: Most of the interesting bits happen in the linker+debugger. "gcc -ffunction- sections -fdata-sections -fPIC" is likely to be pretty good in terms of compiler output. What you then need is a linker that will relink an image, changing it as little as possible

Re: Simple development GCC and G++

2010-09-27 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:57:24 -0500 > If you haven't used this feature in Microsoft's Visual Studio, you can > download Microsoft Visual Studio Express for free and see it in action. [off-topic] Well, I would imagine that Visual Studio Express runs only on Microsoft Windows. Unfortunately, I don't

Re: Simple development GCC and G++

2010-09-27 Thread Rick C. Hodgin
> Most of the interesting bits happen in the linker+debugger... Agreed, which is why the compiler side doesn't matter much in terms of how much it does, just so long as it is correct and compliant. This is the hard part I'm finding, which is why I'm looking to the GCC community which spends a gre

Re: Simple development GCC and G++

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Brook
> A while back I posted a question about adding edit-and-continue > abilities. Since then I've begun work on a rapid development compiler > (rdc) which has these abilities, but I've had some thoughts I'd like to > share, and receive some feedback from the GCC experts: > > What if a subset of GCC

Re: Simple development GCC and G++

2010-09-27 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 07:47:48AM -0500, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: > A while back I posted a question about adding edit-and-continue > abilities. Are you sure that is feasible? I mean, in principle, a caching incremental compiler is probably feasible, but I cannot figure how you could edit the sour

Simple development GCC and G++

2010-09-27 Thread Rick C. Hodgin
A while back I posted a question about adding edit-and-continue abilities. Since then I've begun work on a rapid development compiler (rdc) which has these abilities, but I've had some thoughts I'd like to share, and receive some feedback from the GCC experts: What if a subset of GCC could be use