On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote: > 2007/10/17, Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:14:01PM +0200, Sylvain Bertrand wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > tcc is a C-only compiler, so you will not get very far compiling > > Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko, which is C++... > > > Ooops! In my mind mozilla/OO are written using C. Too bad it's C++. I > would never risk myself in a even non optimizing C++ compiler.
I don't know about OOo, just Mozilla*. Diego
