Also, I don't know every C compiler; there are simply too many 'out there'. I recommend that people take Standard conformance very seriously when considering a compiler. If you can, avoid any compiler that doesn't closely approximate the ISO standard or fails to supply a solid implementation of the standard library. The Simple C Compiler is a port of Small C/386 to Linux. It is designed for use with older systems or rescue disks. It provides a usable C compiler in significantly less space than GCC.
The Simple C Compiler is a port of Small C/386 to Linux. It is designed for use with older systems or rescue disks. It provides a usable C compiler in significantly less space than GCC.
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Recent releases
Release Notes: The build system now is now a makefile, which replaces both of the older scripts. In addition, the backend is now FASM rather than NASM.
Release Notes: This release fixes dozens of bugs in handling of conditionals, branching, and naming of symbols. The source is now more organized in a clean directory tree, and new scripts for building and installing it have been added. The crt? files from GCC have been removed and replaced with a simpler startup file. A custom libc based on the one from ASMUTILS is included.
Release Notes: This release is capable of compiling simple applications which can be linked against standard C libraries.
Recent comments
Here's a fix for the FASM backen: in src/cc4.c, in function setcodes, all of the DB, DW, DD, RB, RW, RD, parts need to be edited to include a semicolon (at least with fasm-1.69.31). Example: line 296, change '000 DD ' to '000: DD'.
I'm available to help. It looks like completing the changes to convert the backend to are trivial, and you've already done the heavy lifting.
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tcc is another tiny compiler alternative...
...which may be interesting if this one is insufficient for ones' needs.
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simplec does certainly seem to be accepting of a wider variety of code, however -- it happily attempts to compile a fair bit of non-C99-compliant code that tcc refuses to touch. (Indeed, I had to fix a number of pointer-misuse issues in simplec's codebase before tcc would deign to compile it).