Re: [dwm] [discuss] Tiny C Compiler

2007/10/17, Diego Biurrun <diego_AT_biurrun.de>:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:14:01PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote:
> > 2007/10/17, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>:
> > > Yup, i am the maintainer of this compiler in pkgsrc since 2003.
> > >
> > > The projects looks like a bit stopped but I like it very much then and now.
> > > The scripting feature is quite cool and nice for some things like
> > > parsing raw structures from the shell and similar things when the
> > > compilation stage is senseless or molest.
> > >
> > > AFAIK it can compile Linux, but i didn't had a try. Maybe together with
> > > pcc it can raise a new lightweight C compiler era ;)
> > >
> > > About tcc.. i wanted to say that the assembly generated is quite
> > > cleaner than the GCC one. so this doesn't means to be as optimal as in GCC
> > > but performs quite ok and the code is clenaer.
> >
> > A thing that would be funny to test: use tcc to compile things like
> > OpenOffice or Gecko based browsers. If that works, I wonder how this
> > software would perform. Maybe Gentoo should really think about
> > including it in it's C compiler suite
> > Fabrice Bellard is the creator of ffmpeg and qemu, then I would
> > recommend to keep an eye on tcc.
>
> tcc is a C-only compiler, so you will not get very far compiling
> Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko, which is C++...
>
> Diego
>
Ooops! In my mind mozilla/OO are written using C. Too bad it's C++. I
would never risk myself in a even non optimizing C++ compiler.
Received on Wed Oct 17 2007 - 15:48:28 UTC