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

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Thanks. LCC is only for 32 bit x86 (unless something changed very
recently). And a Windows compiler doesn't help me. :-)

Arnold

Luther Johnson <luther.johnson at makerlisp.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>