Re: [Tinycc-devel] tcc optional argument as in C++

[Christian Jullien]

To me, there is no need to write a new compiler for that. A preprocessor is enough (remember that first Barne’s C++ compiler, at least until 2.0,  was a pre-processor)

The benefit of pre-processor is that it can be used with other C compilers.

 

address@hidden may want to add more syntactic sugar and extend his preprocessor with, say, position independent arguments

 

void copy(void*dest, const void*src, int deepcopy=0);

 

copy(src: s, dest: d);

 

C.

 

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of David Mertens
Sent: lundi 20 février 2012 15:13
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] tcc optional argument as in C++

 

I agree with Christian. However, if the need is great, why not write your own compiler that uses libtcc and handles that preprocessing for you? You could copy the current tcc.c and modify it in a handful of places and you'd have your own derived compiler. Note that I'm not suggesting that you fork tcc and hack on this feature. Rather, start a new project that clearly depends on and derives from tcc/libtcc which has just the .c file and a Makefile.

A tcclet, so to speak. :-)

David

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Christian Jullien <address@hidden> wrote:

As long as my opinion matters, I prefer to reserve C++ features to C++
compilers.
In order to keep tcc small and simple, I prefer to stick to C only features.
I think it's better to implement C11 features than to hack few C++ goodies.

M2c

Christian

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Sent: lundi 20 février 2012 14:37
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Subject: [Tinycc-devel] tcc optional argument as in C++

Hi,
i want/need to have optional argument declared inside the function prototype
only. I have two options for doing it. Write a preprocessor that does the
mod or modify the Tcc preprocessor and adding a commandline switch to it in
order to accept the relaxed parsing or if you think, eventually without
commandline switch. What solution do you prefer that i implement ?



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