Re: [dwm] [discuss] Tiny C Compiler

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote:
> 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++...
> >
> 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.

I don't know about OOo, just Mozilla*.

Diego
Received on Wed Oct 17 2007 - 15:52:09 UTC