cparser VS tinycc

Compare cparser vs tinycc and see what are their differences.

tinycc

My working copy of tinycc made reentrant (by mingodad)
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cparser tinycc
2 1
320 23
1.3% -
4.6 0.0
6 months ago over 1 year ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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cparser

Posts with mentions or reviews of cparser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Compiling History: A brief tour of C compilers
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
    > QBE is a new optimizing backend much simpler than LLVM; cproc and cparser are two of the C compilers that target it, in addition to its own minic.

    I thought cparser targeted libFirm. That's what their GitHub page says [0].

    "It acts as a frontend to the libFirm intermediate representation library."

    > We really need a production quality open source C compiler that is actually written in C.

    I honestly think cproc or cparser are almost there already. For cproc, you just need to improve the quality of code optimization; it's really QBE you'd need to change. For example, you could change unnecessary multiplications by powers of 2 into left shifts, improve instruction selection so that subtraction is always something like "sub rax, rdi" and not "neg rdi / add rax, rdi" [1]).

    For cparser, I notice slightly higher quality codegen; libFirm just needs more architecture support (e.g. AMD64 support appears to work for me, but it's labeled as experimental).

    [0]: https://github.com/libfirm/cparser

    [1]: I'm pretty sure this is the line of code that generates it, too: https://c9x.me/git/qbe.git/tree/amd64/emit.c#n418

  • Cparser – A C99 parser (with GNU extensions) (2020)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2023

tinycc

Posts with mentions or reviews of tinycc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-01.
  • Ask HN: Does someone have pyvm-3.0.tar.bz2
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022
    I'm trying to have buildable versions of several compilers for learning and historical preservation and recently discovered "lwc" https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Lightweight_C++ and apparently the latest version of it come with this pyvm version http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-3.0/ -> http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-3.0/pyvm-3.0.tar.bz2 but is not accessible anymore.

    Does anyone have it and could share it ?

    I already have a version 2.1 here https://github.com/mingodad/lwc and here https://github.com/mingodad/pyvm and here is some discussion with links https://github.com/mingodad/cfront-3/issues/6 .

    I also have:

    - Cfront3 https://github.com/mingodad/cfront-3

    - Cyclone https://github.com/mingodad/cyclone

    - Tinycc reeentrant https://github.com/mingodad/tinycc

    Thank you in advance for any help !

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cparser and tinycc you can also consider the following projects:

lwc - LightWeight C++

libwifi - An 802.11 (WiFi) Frame Generation and Parsing Library in C

pyvm - archive of pyvm.git (last push: version 2.1). includes "lightweight C++" in pyvm/lwc dir.

cyclone - Cyclone Language Compiler fixes to build on recent operating systems

xcc - Toy C compiler for x86-64/aarch64/riscv64/wasm

website-meta-language - An old offline HTML preprocessor (which can be used for static site generation), written in Perl and C that is still maintained for legacy reasons, but probably not recommended for new sites.

cfront-3 - self education and historical research of the C++ compiler cfront v3

tinycc - Unofficial mirror of mob development branch