Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace | From | Nix <> | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:02:59 +0100 |
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Rob Landley suggested tentatively: > On Thursday 30 March 2006 2:24 am, Nix wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Rob Landley whispered secretively: >> > Actually according to the changelog version 0.9.21 grew support for ARM, >> > and I believe it supports some other platforms too. >> >> That's... impressive. Of course the more generality it grows the slower >> it must necessarily become, > > Not if compliation speed is the primary explicit design goal from day one, and > they regression test with that in mind.
Aaah.
> Keep in mind that the main use of tcc these days is to turn c into a scripting > language. Just start your C file with > > #!/usr/bin/tcc -run
I feel distinctly queasy. (I can't easily think of a less suitable language for scripting than C, either: perhaps COBOL...)
> And notice that #! is a preprocessor comment line as far as tcc is > concerned. :)
I noticed that, but I didn't think anyone actually *used* tcc for this.
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