Re: [Tinycc-devel] TCC and "smart" linking

[Oleg N. Cher]

David,

> TCC is an open source project, of course. Perhaps your best solution 
> is to fork it and add your own smart linking optimizations.

Maybe I did, but I'm not so interested in the development of the 
compiler with the vague purpose of the speed of compiled code at the 
expense of quality. Judging by the fact that you reject the idea of ​​ 
smart linking, it is. Also, I learned how difficult to push an own fork 
to the official release.

I know that C is slowly compiled language. But producing compilers that 
have flaws, eliminated in the old TP, we are marking time.

For me, the development in C is not an end in itself too. I'm looking 
for a good C compiler that produces small code for x86-32 and x86-64 to 
be a back-end for building my programs written in language Oberon for 
the XDev project. I came to this list to give you the idea, and not to 
implement it yourself. If you don't like to accept it (I understand, 
implementation is not so trivial), I'm using a different compiler, if I 
find it.


> David
>
> On Oct 10, 2012 2:11 AM, "Oleg N. Cher" <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     I would mentioned that Turbo Pascal (7.1) has very fast
>     compilation too, and was very compact - command-line compiler
>     tpc.exe is 75 Kb. Then I do not agree with the fact that "smart"
>     linking feature is a redundant in TCC. It's the absolutely
>     necessary feature, especially if you actively work with large
>     libraries and do not want to include all code from the libraries
>     into your software.

Oleg N. Cher,
VEDAsoft Oberon Club
http://zx.oberon2.ru