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tcc (Tiny C compiler) is fantastic!

After struggling for a long time, i can still
only be considered a novice at C programming.
But i _love_ tcc!

After dealing with such cumbersome overhead in gcc
(GNU C compiler), which is the standard one used in
pretty much all versions of Linux, and not really
liking many of the other ones either (in Windows,
i tried DM, DJCPP, Ox, and others), i am just
blown away by how small and fast tcc is! And the
executables it produces are the smallest i've ever seen.

Note that tcc was originally an entry in the IOCCC
(International Obfuscated C Code Competition), and
also that its author is Fabrice Bellard, who also
created Qemu (the virtualization software) and is
also a major contributor to my current favorite
small Linux: SliTaz.

I have tcc running on a few of my BasicLinux 3.5 systems.
For BL it can't be beat.

-monz


--- On Wed, 2/10/10, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
wrote:

> From: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [BL] Linux Book(s) (and Tiny C)
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 2:00 PM
> Thanks -monz. I shall bear that in
> mind.
> Old computers, old systems, old books - nothing wrong with
> that!
> I didn't get to the library today, after all but I've seen
> on their website that
> they don't have the books you mentioned but they do have
> books of the vintage
> you mention if only in Dutch translation :-).
> 
> In the meantime I've been amusing myself by installing
> things with pkg.
> yabasic to try out the principle of the thing - worked
> perfectly.
> and then passwd - so I can kid myself I'm running a big
> UNIX machine with *users* ;-)
> I was a bit worried when I restarted the old lappy, though
> and found I had to log in straight away...
> Thought I'd been reduced to an unprivileged user for ever!
> ...and I can't quite figure out groups, yet.
> 
> I read something in the archives about the Tiny C Compiler
> - is this still around?
> 
> Dick. 
> 
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