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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:18:56 -0700
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 25/06/2024 22:13, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>> [...]
>>> Can you use tcc to generate assembly from a .c source file?
>>>
>>> similar to:
>>>
>>> $ gcc -S sourcefile.c
>> No, tcc has no such option.
>> I was able to get an assembly listing by running `tcc -c
>> sourcefile.c`
>> followed by `objdump -d sourcefile.o`.
>
> <https://godbolt.org> has tcc on its list of C compilers, and it shows
> the generated assembly.  I don't know how it does this - perhaps using
> this same method.  If people are interested in looking at the code
> generated by tcc (or vast numbers of other compilers, versions and
> targets), then godbolt is usually the easiest way to get it.
>
> And if anyone wants to know how they get the nice assembly out of the
> compilers, the source code for godbolt is also freely available.

https://godbolt.org/z/3b18qno37

The assembly listing doesn't look like objdump output, and the output
window on the lower right looks like tcc itself generated
"/app/output.s".  A quick look at the source code was unhelpful.

I've emailed Matt Goldbolt and asked him about this.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */