Tiny C Compiler Reviews and Details

Is Tiny C Compiler good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• What every compiler writer should know about programmers (Anton Ertl, 2015) [pdf]

  Some of those already exist, e.g. https://bellard.org/tcc/ However, they're not in widespread use. I would be curious to learn if there's any data/non-anecdotal information as to why. Is it momentum/inertia of GCC/LLVM/MSVC? Are alternative compilers incomplete and can't actually compile a lot of practical programs (belying the "relatively simple program") claim? Or is the performance differential due to... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty

  In theory you should be able to use TCC to build git currently [1] [2]. If you have a lightweight system or you're building something experimental, it's a lot easier to get TCC up and running over GCC. I note that it supports arm, arm64, i386, riscv64 and x86_64. [1] https://bellard.org/tcc/ [2] https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Weird Lexical Syntax

  > I'm not sure who wants to be able to syntax highlight C at 35 MB per second, but I am now able to do so Fast, but tcc *compiles* C to binary code at 29 MB/s on a really old computer: https://bellard.org/tcc/#speed. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Pnut: A C to POSIX Shell Compiler you can Trust

  "Because Pnut can be distributed as a human-readable shell script (`pnut.sh`), it can serve as the basis for a reproducible build system. With a POSIX compliant shell, `pnut.sh` is sufficiently powerful to compile itself and, with some effort, [TCC](https://bellard.org/tcc/). Because TCC can be used to bootstrap GCC, this makes it possible to bootstrap a fully featured build toolchain from only human-readable... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC

  For what it's worth you can implement a C compiler in under 10kLOC. The chibi C compiler is only a few thousand lines [1]. There is also Cake [2] and the tiny C compiler [3] which are both relatively small. [1] https://github.com/rui314/chibicc [3] https://bellard.org/tcc/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01

  I was going to say, the list should include something by Fabrice Bellard. Tiny C Compiler is one. https://bellard.org/tcc/ I was thinking, maybe first version/commit of QEMU would be interesting to read. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin

  I occasionally use tcc (https://bellard.org/tcc/) like an interpreter (`tcc -run`), it's convenient for certain odd tasks. Not so much for interactive stuff, but if I'm building little PoCs for an idea that will get dropped into a C project, or fiddling with structs work out how something should/is being stored, or in situations where I'm making stuff that interacts with or examples based on C code and I want to... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

  This reminded me the idea of compilers bootstrapping (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714194). That is, now you can code in SectorC some slightly more advanced version of C capable of compiling TCC (https://bellard.org/tcc/), and then with TCC you can go forward to GCC and so on. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• What constitutes a "debugger enabled version of bash"

  The tinyc compiler reads scripts like a c-interpreter, with shebang and all. Source: over 3 years ago

• Tiny-C Language Compiler

  I remember the good old days when you could put TCC into your bootloader, so you could boot the kernel from source code. Source: over 3 years ago

• Tiny-C Compiler

  While Fabrice Bellard is no longer working on TCC [0] and an official release tarball hasn't been packaged since version 0.9.27 (5 years ago) the project is by no means unmaintained. For details, check their current working repository [1] and mailing list [2]. [0]: https://bellard.org/tcc/ [1]: https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git [2]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Tiny-C Language Compiler

  What you're looking for is probably Bellard's Tiny C Compiler (TCC). Source: over 3 years ago

• Tiny-C Language Compiler

  Virgin stripped-down Tiny-C vs Chad Bellard's TCC (gcc but FAST (to compile, not execute)). Source: over 3 years ago

• Tiny-C Compiler

  Not to be confused with https://bellard.org/tcc/, which is a tiny compiler for the C language. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• The Super Tiny Compiler

  I thought is was about this: https://bellard.org/otcc/otcc.c (a tiny, obfuscated C compiler, winner of the 2001 IOCCC). It has led to TinyCC (https://bellard.org/tcc/), not as tiny, but also more complete, not obfuscated and actually useful. It turns out the compiler in the article is the opposite of that. It it a simple toy transpiler and the code is very clear and mostly made of comments. The former is a feat of... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• What the hell is Forth? (2019)

  I didn't really understand forth till I tried implementing eforth in c. https://github.com/tehologist/forthkit That was so much fun I built a second one in under 300 lines of javascript for experimenting with canvas api in web browser. Single file doesn't require a server, you can drag and drop code onto text window. https://github.com/tehologist/ecma6-forth... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• dont want online ones

  Try tcc https://bellard.org/tcc/ be warned it doesnt do c++. Source: over 3 years ago

• dont want online ones

  TCC allows you to use c like scripting language. Source: over 3 years ago

• A suckless RSS reader, finally

  But I don't think Rust fits in here: https://suckless.org/philosophy/ > How is Rust incompatible with aligning with the philosophy that encourages building simple yet functional things? I would say it attracts different kind of developers that in turn make respective design choices, and I believe Rust, its syntax, package management ecosystem and community reflect that. Can you write simple system tools in... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• A Compiler Writing Journey

  I was thinking of writing a transpile to C that compiles and executes at runtime. Sounds like you want TCC: > Compile and execute C source directly. No linking or assembly necessary. > TCCBOOT, a hack where TCC loads and boots a Linux kernel from source in about 10 seconds. That is to say, it is a "boot loader" that reads Linux kernel source code from disk, writes executable... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Post-Apocalyptic Programming

  There are also https://bellard.org/tcc/ and https://github.com/jserv/amacc that contain mostly complete C compilers. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago