Hello David,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 12:12:50PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:

> The C standard has been bastardized enough during its lifespan, why
> not selecting one version (c99, c11) and make it feature complete once
> and for all ?

Your statement about the quality of the standard development is not
connected to any apparent reason to pursue an exact implementation of
a certain version (of a "badly developed standard").

> Come on guys, make TCC great again

"make <something> great again" has nowadays for many people unfortunately
quite negative connotations. Let us possibly avoid politically charged
slogans?

> with each passing year it should implement many new things

Hardly.
The most useful things are few and and tinycc already has an impressive
collection of them. Every additional feature impacts the goal of
compactness and speed.

> by now it should be "gcc or llvm/clang" [at a fraction of the size]

What would you mean by that?
Tinycc has a very different purpose than those and at most it would be
to a certain degree compatible, which it already is.

> "many other gigantic heavy-weight toolchains" when it surely doesn't
> need "millions of lines of code which do implement it" ?

I really doubt that someone knows how to implement the _exact_
behavior of those toolchains without millions of lines of code.

So you must have meant some _different_ behavior, which is unknown
without reading your thoughts.

My point is not to try to find out the exact meaning of your text but
merely to suggest using concrete, technical arguments instead of
inexact emotional ones.

Kind regards
/tccm

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