On Mon 24 Jul 2023, Sagar Acharya wrote:
> I see C compilers recommended by suckless are:
>
> tinycc
> simplecc
> cproc
> qbe
> lacc
>
> Which variant of C do they offer? What are the differences and do they offer sufficient features to express with a program completely?
I tried to check if Michael Forney's C compiler was on the list and ran across
this page while searching:
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/04/27/the-mir-c-interpreter-and-just-in-time-jit-compiler#how_the_mir_c_compiler_compares_with_other_c_compilers
Thought it had some interesting comparisons of the compilers even if it is
comparing them to an interpreter. Michael Forney's compiler is cproc which I
thought was a very interesting and well designed alternative to GNU and llvm.
I've also read that Rob Landley (who was active on the musl mailing list) had
plans to work on a C compiler, but I think that project is dead. The code he
was working on is still available and there's more information about his tcc
forks here:
https://landley.net/code/tinycc/ I know some projects use tcc
successfully, but they're usually small projects. I thought pcc was also
interesting for its cross platform capabilities, but probably not as efficient
as some of the other choices and I think the version of C supported was rather
dated.
Sincerely
L. Michaels
https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
Received on Tue Aug 01 2023 - 15:07:33 CEST