Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 01/07/2024 13:09, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
 

Using products like tcc doesn't mean never using gcc. (Especially on Linux
where you will have it installed anyway.)

 The parenthetical remark is wrong.

You mean it is possible for a Linux installation to not have gcc preinstalled?
Sure, although in the dozen or two versions I've come across, it always has been. This is a different situation from Windows, where you can be fairly sure it won't be!
But in the context I'm talking about, if installing tcc is a possibility, then so is installing gcc. Unless you want to include also systems too small to run gcc, in which case I'd extend it to systems too small to run any compiler.
I think if talking about tcc vs. gcc, we need to assume a system capable of running either.