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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: tcc - first impression. Was: Baby X is bor nagain
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 02/07/2024 09:54, Michael S wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:48:30 -0700
>> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> tcc is not advertised to support C17.  According to
>>> <https://bellard.org/tcc/>, "TCC is heading torward full ISOC99
>>> compliance."
>>
>> I didn't say that they advertise C17.  However in practice they do
>> support few C11/C17 features.  So why not _Alignof() ?
>> Considering that tcc already supports old Gnu __alignof__ extension,
>> adding support for _Alignof() would be very easy for them.
>
> _Generics is a very easy feature to implement (I did it in about 40
> lines).  Probably tcc could have it too with little trouble.

The key point is that tcc does NOT have it.  Whether it
easily could or not is irrelevant.