Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace | From | Nix <> | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:23:44 +0100 |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Rob Landley announced authoritatively: > I play with Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler (http://www.tinycc.org), and > hope to get a distro compiled with it someday, at least as a proof of > concept.
It's a nifty idea, a sort of uClibc of C compilers. Alas it's useless on almost all my systems because it's x86-only by design...
> That aims for full c99 and is already implementing a lot of gcc stuff too.
Good for it, as long as it doesn't go on to define __GNUC__ like icc did at one point (even though it doesn't implement all GCC extensions)... but Fabrice is sane so I doubt he'd do anything that loopy.
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