Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:21:01 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance |
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> I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to > make kernel changes to make it work with it.
I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing. At some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever reasonable C compiler is around:
- associative arrays as a builtin type
{ assoc bar = {}; // anonymous, no file backing
bar{"some key"} = "some value"; if (defined(bar{"some other value"})) ... }
- regular expressions
{ char *foo = "blech";
if (foo =~ /regex are nice/) { printf("Well isn't that special?\n"); } }
- tk bindings built in
and then we'll port BK to that compiler. It's likely to be GCC because we want to support all the different architectures but if a kernel sponsered cc shows up we'll happily throw money at that. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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