[TUHS] Off topic: Does anyone know what's going on with the PCC Revived project?

[Luther Johnson]

I think LCC might be something of interest, if you haven't looked into 
it yet, and there is a nice Windows version, called Pelle's C, that 
originated from it.

https://github.com/drh/lcc

http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/

On 05/23/2025 09:13 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 May 2025, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>>> It is *such* a pity!  I said similar sad words just two days ago
>>> when shortly touching linux-man at .  That we lost (i only track your
>>> git mirror of) it, and are left with only gigabyte monsters that
>>> go universes beyond Ken Thompson's "reasonable optimizations"
>>> (iirc), and tcc (luckily this we have).  Here the built gcc ball
>>> is 243 times larger than tcc's, and clang is 284 times larger
>>> even!
>> I wish I had any idea what I was doing when it came to language
>> interpreters and compilers... These swiss-army-nukes epitomize "no kill
>> like overkill", but I prefer small, single-purpose tools.
>>
>> A new lightweight C compiler with a focus on various varieties of x86 is
>> something I think would be useful and would do if I had any idea how to go
>> about it.
> Well, there's https://github.com/rui314/chibicc, which is pretty small
> and seems decent (caveat that I haven't used it, though).
>
>          - Dadn C.
>