[OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace

[Nix]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Rob Landley suggested tentatively:
> On Thursday 30 March 2006 2:24 am, Nix wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Rob Landley whispered secretively:
>> > Actually according to the changelog version 0.9.21 grew support for ARM,
>> > and I believe it supports some other platforms too.
>>
>> That's... impressive. Of course the more generality it grows the slower
>> it must necessarily become,
> 
> Not if compliation speed is the primary explicit design goal from day one, and 
> they regression test with that in mind.

Aaah.

> Keep in mind that the main use of tcc these days is to turn c into a scripting 
> language.  Just start your C file with
> 
> #!/usr/bin/tcc -run

I feel distinctly queasy. (I can't easily think of a less suitable language for
scripting than C, either: perhaps COBOL...)

> And notice that #! is a preprocessor comment line as far as tcc is 
> concerned. :)

I noticed that, but I didn't think anyone actually *used* tcc for this.

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