GMP 5.0.5 build fails with tcc due to x86_64 asm (unknown register...)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-06-20 21:26:18 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Let's first decide if it is worth spending time on.  Just because
> somebody writes a "compiler" doesn't mean taat we need to feed GMP to
> it...
> 
> Does anybody really need to use tcc for compiling GMP?

Perhaps because of dependency. But I'm not sure (there was a confusing
Debian bug report suggesting that it was needed).

> Does this compiler have its own (very limited) assembler build-in?

tcc compiles C by generating byte code directly. Thus an assembler
isn't really needed. It seems to have a very limited assembler,
though.

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