[Tinycc-devel] mksh fails to buid with bound check

[Thomas Preud'homme]

Hi Kirill,

it seems you are with Fabrice Bellard the most familiar person with bound 
check code in tcc. Long time ago a bug was reported in Debian about mksh 
failing to work when compiled with tcc and we later found that it was due to 
bound check. Since you did many improvement in the last release, I tried again 
a few days ago but unfortunately it still segfaults when compiled with tcc and 
bound checking mode on.

Would you mind to take a look? Recent version of mksh have disabled the use of 
tcc -b so I use the version 38.3 of mksh (it is the version where the problem 
was found). Once the source downloaded, you just need to go in mksh directory 
in the source and enter CC=tcc CFLAGS=-g sh Build.sh -r. Then try running mksh 
with the most basic command: ./mksh -c true and look at the segfault. This 
procedure is described at [0].

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537622

Anyway, even if you can't or don't want to take a look at this bug I'd like to 
thank you for improving the bound check code in tcc. It's one of its key 
feature that makes this project cool and that people like.

Best regards,

Thomas