Re: [Tinycc-devel] Is tcc still being developed?

[Fabrice Bellard]

Peter Busser wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > I have not worked on TCC for a long time because of lack of motivation
> > and time. If someone is interested to become maintainer of TCC he can
> > contact me.
>
>
> Too bad. It is a nice piece of work IMHO and it would be a pity if development 
> would stop completely. If noone else is willing to maintain it, then I guess 
> I will volunteer.
>
>
> > Another interesting project would be to add a bytecode generator to have
> > a slower but portable target.
>
>
> Is there any design for this bytecode generator? I mean, what bytecode is it 
> supposed to generate? Are there any (on-line) references about bytecode 
> generation?

A register based bytecode would be better because the TCC code generator 
is register based. I don't have explicit references about bytecode 
generation. Bytecode generation gives about the same problems as machine 
code generation.

Fabrice.