[Tinycc-devel] Extension to C language

[Paulo Henrique Torrens]

Hi,

I'm working on a compiler suite project (black.nongnu.org), and made several updates to TCC in order to incentive it's use as bootstrapper compiler and for "publicity", including port to Mac OS X and the Open/Free/Net BSDs (and planning on fixing for Android), the C11 _Atomic, _Alignas and _Generic keywords, and some other stuff. I plan to send a patch soon.

I've made a small extension to my compiler, making "tracked variables" in C. They are just reference counted structs which can call free() automatically.

void test() {

  int ^strong = malloc(sizeof(int));

  printf("strong has %d references", countof(strong));

  int *weak_reference = strong;

  // countage for strong becomes 0 and free(strong) is called automatically

};

Should I update this patch too? I mean, would this extension (enabled with -ftracked-variables) be used into the main branch?

Anyway, I will update all the other patches soon. :)

Greetings.