Tiny C Compiler Is Still Around, But Not Quickly Moving

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Tiny C Compiler Is Still Around, But Not Quickly Moving

While the Tiny C Compiler may be quick at compiling code, the lightweight C compiler hasn't been too quick to advance with new releases and features...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIyOTM

[cb88]

Rob Landley has been thinking about branching off of the old tcc code and creating a new more flexible version called qcc. Which would reuse the TCG code generator from QEMU. Seems like a good idea possibly benefiting QEMU as well.

For the time being though he is mainly working on toybox which is a BSD licensed busybox alike that focuses maintainabilty and fedelity to specs. It is also worth noting that Rob knows his stuff and his branch of tcc had 64bit support before the "official" one which was stuck rotting in ancient CVS at the time.

http://www.landley.net/hg/qcc

[Jimmy]

Tiny is tiny

I suspect that "tiny" and "marvelous new features" are, to some extent, going to be mutually exclusive. You can't have a rapidly expanding feature set and still be tiny. Also, it's filling a niche need rather than the mainstream needs. It only makes sense that the project moves a bit slower.

[Brane215]

Cute thing.

It has small source code that is relatively understandable and manageable.

[Brane215]

"C script supported : just add '#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run' at the first line of your C source, and execute it directly from the command line."

Nice hack. Enables one to use C as an pseudointerpreted language ;o)

[roytam1]

0.9.26 released

Greetings everybody,

it is my pleasure to finally announce the release of TinyCC 0.9.26. This
release has been longer than previously to come along but it's finally here.
This release would not have been possible without the contributions of many
developpers and testers. Thank you:

Akim Demaille
Alexandre Becoulet
Ali Gholami Rudi
Andrew Mulbrook
Ben Bacarisse
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
bobbl
Changming Xu
Christian Jullien
Claudio Bley
Daniel Gl?ckner
Dennis
Detlef Riekenberg
Domingo Alvarez Duarte
Feret
Frederic Feret
Gabriel Corneanu
grischka
Henry Kroll III
Hitoshi Mitake
Jaroslav Kysela
Joe Soroka
Kirill Smelkov
Luigi Rizzo
Manuel Simoni
Michael Matz
Milutin Jovanovic
mingodad
Nicolas Limare
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Ramsay Jones
Romain Francoise
Roy Tam
Sam Watkins
Sergei Trofimovich
Sergey Vinokurov
Shinichiro Hamaji
Soloist Deng
Thomas Preud'homme
Timo VJ Lahde
Urs Jan?en
Vincent Lefevre
yuanbin

for improving tinycc and:

Aharon Robbins
Austin English
Christian Jullien
Didier Barvaux
Domingo Alvarez Duarte
Feng Nauh
Jerry Reed
Ramsay Jones
Robert Clausecker
Urs Jan?en

for your prompt and thorough testing. A special thanks as well for Grishka,
who despite not doing the release, have constantly supervized the
developpement of TinyCC by reviewing most of the commits that where done, by
giving advices, and by all the commits he did himself.



Most important changes since previous release are summarized below. For more
details, please refer to the git log.

*** Major changes since TinyCC 0.9.25 ***

User interface:
- -MD/-MF (automatically generate dependencies for make)
- -pthread option (same as -D_REENTRANT -lpthread) (Henry Kroll III)
- -m32/-m64 to re-exec cross compiler (Henry Kroll III)
- -Wl, Mimic all GNU -option forms supported by ld (Kirill Smelkov)
- new LIBTCCAPI tcc_set_options() (grischka)

Platforms:
- Many improvements for x86-64 target (Shinichiro Hamaji, Michael Matz,
grischka)
- x86-64 assembler (Frederic Feret)
- Many improvements for ARM target (Daniel Gl?ckner, Thomas Preud'homme)
- Support WinCE PE ARM (Timo VJ Lahde)
- Support ARM hardfloat calling convention (Thomas Preud'homme)
- Support SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) (Henry Kroll III)
- Support Debian GNU/kFreeBSD kernels (Pierre Chifflier)
- Support GNU/Hurd kernels (Thomas Preud'homme)
- Support OSX (tcc -run only) (Milutin Jovanovic)
- Support multiarch configuration (Thomas Preud'homme)
- Support out-of-tree build (Akim Demaille)

Features:
- C99 variable length arrays (Thomas Preud'homme & Joe Soroka)
- Asm labels for variables and functions (Thomas Preud'homme)
- STT_GNU_IFUNC (Indirect functions as externals) (Thomas Preud'homme)
- More tests (tests2) (Milutin Jovanovic)


Best regards,

Thomas Preud'homme

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html.../msg00151.html