Re: Motivation of tccc mainatainers (Was: Python recompile)

On 3/12/2025 7:04 AM, bart wrote:

On 12/03/2025 08:53, Michael S wrote:

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:43:51 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:58:43 +0200, Michael S wrote:
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BTW, I think that tcc is doing damage to itself by refusal to
support ucrt variant of Microsoft's C RTL.

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Damaging their market share and hurting their revenues?

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I don't know what exactly motivates people to continue to maintain tcc
after all fun things, like, for example, writing working compiler*, are
done years ago. But it seems that extending user base and increasing
satisfaction of existing users is not totally unimportant for this
people.

 Tcc is a more important product than you might think. It is a compact program of 200-300KB that can turn C source code into binary.

Hey man! I remember when your gave me a heads up on that experimental HMAC encryption thing I was, from time to time, developing and working on. You prompted me to get it to compile on a nice variety of compilers, even your own. After conversing with you, it was more portable then ever! :^) Thanks for that, Bart!
It was the following thread. FWIW, I did a very crude port of it to JavaScript. The link goes to my site and decrypts it using the default Password, :^):
http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=d4b6b34ab20dfa991d9c6208b9bb4cefa2f3717bc7c76621c8bd217424afea592a053e32707b39c6529e03335c23a05d96bd8877f32eb307f431d00ddd2af51f4ac8101a225d6ef7e5aaed82089e56592f1118198ebd66ffb3dbd95e84948ce722246d0e12d84ec788d1aa58b836b14a9efedab6a5159b9e0cfad37a8aa7d289ad07796275c1b68cee141829193cbb6bd588559b618091d0f6
The plaintext there is:
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It was this thread:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/WIxIwoK7DAAJ
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