Re: Baby X is bor nagain

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
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After reading the above I decided to try tcc.  I used tcc for
the first time earlier today.

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You probably used tcc 0.9.27, the most recent release, from 2017.
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Development has continued, with a git repo at
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    git://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git
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The master branch hasn't gone past 9.9.27, but the "mob" branch has been
updated as recently as 2024-03-22.  It builds in just a few seconds on
my system.  The same version is available on godbot.org as "TCC (trunk)".
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I haven't paid much attention to what's actually been implemented
post-0.9.27.  See the included Changelog if you're curious.  The one
thing I've noticed is that the "mob" version implements the C99 rule
that falling off the end of main does an implicit "return 0;",
admittedly a minor point.
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I'm not suggesting you should build tcc from source and repeat the
experiment (I suspect it wouldn't make much difference), but it's there
if you're so inclined.

Thank you for the info.  If I were going to use tcc I would want to
use only the version that is standard for my environment, rather
than try to deal with a custom build, but maybe things will be
different in the future.