[OT] Non-GCC compilers used for linux userspace

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Rob Landley announced authoritatively:
> I play with Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler (http://www.tinycc.org), and 
> hope to get a distro compiled with it someday, at least as a proof of 
> concept.

It's a nifty idea, a sort of uClibc of C compilers. Alas it's useless on
almost all my systems because it's x86-only by design...

> That aims for full c99 and is already implementing a lot of gcc stuff too.

Good for it, as long as it doesn't go on to define __GNUC__ like icc did
at one point (even though it doesn't implement all GCC
extensions)... but Fabrice is sane so I doubt he'd do anything that
loopy.

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