2007/10/17, pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yup, i am the maintainer of this compiler in pkgsrc since 2003. > > The projects looks like a bit stopped but I like it very much then and now. > The scripting feature is quite cool and nice for some things like > parsing raw structures from the shell and similar things when the > compilation stage is senseless or molest. > > AFAIK it can compile Linux, but i didn't had a try. Maybe together with > pcc it can raise a new lightweight C compiler era ;) > > About tcc.. i wanted to say that the assembly generated is quite > cleaner than the GCC one. so this doesn't means to be as optimal as in GCC > but performs quite ok and the code is clenaer. > > > --pancake
A thing that would be funny to test: use tcc to compile things like OpenOffice or Gecko based browsers. If that works, I wonder how this software would perform. Maybe Gentoo should really think about including it in it's C compiler suite Fabrice Bellard is the creator of ffmpeg and qemu, then I would recommend to keep an eye on tcc.
