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

[Roberto E. Vargas Caballero]

Hi,

On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 04:46:10PM -0700, Bakul Shah via TUHS wrote:
> There are a number of such efforts. Apart from the ones
> already mentioned, there are at least
>   https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/cproc & https://www.simple-cc.org/
> May be you can help them out....

The author of simple-cc here. I would say that cproc is a very good
state and it is able to compile many, many things because it
implemented C11 and many c23 features and a small subset of GNU
extensions that (sadly) are used by many projects today.
The case of simple-cc is different, because it is a more ambitious
project and it implements a full toolchain, including things like
nm, size, as, ... and even a tiny libc. It means that the work is
more disperse between the different tools and the compiler itself
targets only C99 and lacks many features of it (yet).

> The difficulty is in maintaining such compilers, standard
> compliance, complete toolchains for supported platforms, other
> support programs, dealing with platform changes etc.

Indeed. Recently the support for OpenBSD was broken because they
introduced https://man.openbsd.org/pinsyscalls.2 .

Regards,