Re: [Tinycc-devel] a usable C subset (was: modern c++ compiler written in C)

[Federico Bianchi]

How about SubC?

See http://t3x.org/subc/ for an overview?

Best regards
Federico Bianchi

On Sun, 17 May 2015, address@hidden wrote:

> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 04:37:12PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
> > > (Hmm wonder if a K&R tcc-lookalike can be
> > > made to fit into 64K code + 64K data? _That_ would be great :)
> >
> >   If you really want a C compiler that can fit in 64K (or 128K with split
> > I+D) then look at Small-C.  Quite popular during the late 70s/early 80s, it
> > was written to run on 8-bit CPUs at the time.  The version I have is easily
> > 1/10 the source of TCC.
>
> It lacks unfortunately much more than prototypes and const.
>
> I tried it for an embedded-8080 project back then and even considered
> porting it to some peculiar processor and OS I used to work with
> until I realized that the possible gain would not justify the effort.
>
> Nowadays it would be almost better to resort to the "Obfuscated C" dialect,
> its compiler is orders of magnitude more compact :)
>
> Small-C/Plus (about twice as big as Small-C?) actually might be usable,
> had somebody produced ports to more practical platforms than "Z80 with
> undocumented instructions".
>
> Rune