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8cc
- Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability
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lambda-8cc: An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus
The compiler looks to be here: https://github.com/rui314/8cc
- C meeting is over. C23 added
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Compiler career advice?
Implement a compiler for a subset of C. This doesn't need to be self-hosting, but bonus points if it is. Here's an example of what it can look like: https://github.com/rui314/8cc
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NCC, a new ANSI/ISO C compiler
While this is an impressive work, I feel that there are a lot of "tiny" C compilers out there; how is yours any different than SmallerC, TinyC, 8cc, chibicc and many others?
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Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
See https://github.com/rui314/8cc https://github.com/rswier/c4 for a demonstration of this.
chibicc
- Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC
- Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability
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GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses
If a --k&r mode was to be reliable, wouldn't it need to get specified first? Otherwise people would start relying on some edge case.
If speed is not a requirement for the --k&r mode, you could just take the tis-interpreter and note that if it runs without UB, it is still much faster than an actual computer was when k&r were active.
Would it even be possible to specify a variant of C that contains no UB (e.g. would define exactly what happens on unaligned access), but can compile practical existing C89 programs? I wonder if it could be written such that it could actually specify the behaviour consistently across the language intersection supported by both of e.g. GCC 2.95 and Chibicc[0].
Or maybe there are so many bugs in GCC 2.95 that it would simply be infeasible? How much time would it take to specify?
[0]: https://github.com/rui314/chibicc
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EU to vote regulation that has a considerable potential to hurt OSS
I was on the Eclipse Foundation call a few days ago regarding this topic and they said there was a well-established 3-part test for this in the EU courts. But I don't think I managed to take a screenshot, sorry.
Here is a snippet from the EU Blue Guide linked the from the Eclipse blog post:
"Commercial activity is understood as providing goods in a business related context. Non-profit organisations may be considered as carrying out commercial activities if they operate in such a context. This can only be appreciated on a case by case basis taking into account the regularity of the supplies, the characteristics of the product, the intentions of the supplier, etc. In principle, occasional supplies by charities or hobbyists should not be considered as taking place in a business related context."
I would consider GCC or React to fit this definition, while a hobby project like https://github.com/rui314/chibicc not to fit it.
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Best practice to store context for a C compiler
chibicc
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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
chibicc: https://github.com/rui314/chibicc (A reasonably digestible C implementation)
- List of (open source) C compilers
- Chibicc – A Small C Compiler
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Are Hoistings Possible for C++?
When you say a fork of LLVM, am I correct in assuming that you specifically mean a fork of Clang? I don't see how the compiler backend would affect support for language extensions, regardless of whether it's an exception to that such as Tcc, Cproc, the MIR C jitter, lacc, 8cc, 9cc, and chibicc. Most of those are not for production, excluding Cproc and Tcc (at least according to Suckless or Oasis).
What are some alternatives?
SmallerC - Simple C compiler
mold - Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
ncc - classic (K&R) C compiler for AMD64
build-your-own-x - Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
Ne10 - An open optimized software library project for the ARM® Architecture
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Co-dfns - High-performance, Reliable, and Parallel APL
rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266
quickjs - Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.
lambda-8cc - x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus
uemacs - Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons