Re: [Tinycc-devel] TinyCC's future

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Le Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:27:11PM -0700, Peter Fröhlich écrivait/wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Apr 9, 2005, at 15:20, Neil Bradley wrote:
> 
> >I had been told at one time that anything beyond x86 was not in TCC's 
> >future. That got me thinking - what is the intenet on TCC's future? 
> >It's an honest question, not meant to flame or insult. I feel it's a 
> >sleekly designed compiler with a potentially bright future - something 
> >to rival the albatross that gcc has become. What it's ultimate goal?
> 
> I don't know what the "official" future of it is, but I just approved a 
> 10 week student project in which they're going to try to make it into a 
> PPC compiler under OS X. [...]

A possible suggestion, given that tcc does not aim performance, is to
use the GNU lightning library, which generate, from calls to a common
API, machine code for x86, PPC, Sparc.  See
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lightning/ and
http://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/lightning.html

Regards.

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