IRC channel logs

<janneke>ACTION already felt "somewhat bad" about having so much fun with something so trivial as an IRC bot, in the light of our "important" bootstrap work...

<janneke>but i *really* missed "later tell"

<janneke>snuik: announce?

<snuik>Its been said that https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2023-08/msg00062.html

<stikonas>well, the good news is that tcc is really close to being bootstrapped on riscv64...

<stikonas>there are probably a few more bugs though...

<janneke>that's just amazing

<janneke>stikonas: what's the area/distance between "close to being bootstrapped" and "a few more bugs?"

<stikonas>janneke: so at the moment we can use mescc to build mes-tcc binary, that mescc binary can compile next tcc (boot0-tcc) but not link it

<stikonas>and likely once we link the new binary, it will also crash

<janneke>ooh, that's *amazing*

<janneke>oh yeah :)

<janneke>still, good progress!

<stikonas>but that's already second tcc build...

<janneke>yeah

<stikonas>last few bugs were incomplete initialization of structs...

<janneke>right, the {0} thingy

<stikonas>and ekaitz couldn't find where to fix that in mescc

<stikonas>indeed

<janneke>OK

<stikonas>let me see if I can find a reproducer source in the logs...

<stikonas>ok, it's here https://paste.debian.net/1288710/

<janneke>thanks!

<stikonas>still, as you can see, we are quite close to bootstrapping tcc

<janneke>yes

<stikonas>though getting there from hex0 or mes-m2 takes 4 days on current generation of riscv boards

<janneke>and we/you've almost eliminate the janneke-bus-factor as well

<janneke>*eliminated

<oriansj>janneke: there is no way to eliminate the janneke-bus-factor as you are irreplacable and even a team of scheme programmers couldn't bring the spirit and drive you have shared making my bootstrappable dream possible and ultimately real ^_^

<oriansj>and don't feel bad about the IRC bot work, I like it and yes it will definitely help if things get busier here.

<oriansj>muurkha: odd question but do you know of any *good* 8bit MMUs that exist as a separate part? As I am reading the documentation for the Motorola MC68851 and feel like something much more clean should be possible.

<janneke>oriansj: thank-you <3, and i said 'almost'

<janneke>ACTION feels a lot better now that ekaitz and stikonas have at least some mes/tinycc experienc and has no intention whatsoever to become reckless when crossing the street

IRC channel logs

2023-08-19.log