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What advantage does this have over SDCC?
The unofficial repo continuing tcc has geoblocked the UK.
Used in the impressive Guix bootstrap.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Full_002dSour...
There is an actively maintained fork with RISC-V support and such
Currently striving towards my own TypeScript to native x86_64 physical compiler quine bootstrapped off of TCC and QuickJS. Bytecode and AST are there!
Does anyone use libtcc for a scripting language backend? Smaller and faster than llvm. You'd have to transpile to a C ast I imagine.
I recall, there where similar items back in late 70s and early 80s .
Tiny C, Small C are names I seem to recall, buts its very fuzzy - Not sure if they were compilers, may have been interpreters....
Anyone know a good resource for getting started writing a compiler? I'm not trying to write a new LLVM, but being a "software engineer" writing web-based APIs for a living is leaving me wanting more.
There is even smaller C compiler that fits within the 512 bytes https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
This was the compiler I was required to use for my courses in university. GCC was forbidden. The professor just really liked tcc for some reason.
What a blast from the past TCC!
Sad but not surprised to see it's no longer maintained (8 years ago!).
Even in the era of terabyte NVMe drives my eyes water when I install MSVC (and that's usually just for the linker!)
TCC is fantastic! I use it a lot to do fast native-code generation for language projects, and it works really really well.
Man I can't wait for tcc to be reposted for the 4th time this week with the license scrubbed and the comment of "The Latest AI just zero-shotted an entire C compiler in 5 minutes!"
I mixed it up with LCC which was used in Quake 3. Still this is pretty cool.
TCC is fantastic! Very hackable, easy to compile to WASM for some interesting in-browser compilation
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The code of TCC (0.9.26) is kind hard to compile, I have discovered in the past year, while developing a minimal C compiler to compile the TCC sources [1]. For that reason, I have concluded that TCC is its own test set. It uses the constant 0x80000000, which is an edge case for if you want to print it as a signed integer only using 32-bit operators. There is a switch statement with an post-increment operator in the switch expression. There are also switch statements with fall throughs and with goto statements in the cases. It uses the ## operator where the result is the name of a macro. Just to name a few.
[1] https://github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement