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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Motivation of tccc mainatainers (Was: Python recompile)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:22:29 -0700
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On 3/12/2025 7:04 AM, bart wrote:
> On 12/03/2025 08:53, Michael S wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:43:51 -0000 (UTC)
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:58:43 +0200, Michael S wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTW, I think that tcc is doing damage to itself by refusal to
>>>> support ucrt variant of Microsoft's C RTL.
>>>
>>> Damaging their market share and hurting their revenues?
>>
>> I don't know what exactly motivates people to continue to maintain tcc
>> after all fun things, like, for example, writing working compiler*, are
>> done years ago. But it seems that extending user base and increasing
>> satisfaction of existing users is not totally unimportant for this
>> people.
> 
> Tcc is a more important product than you might think. It is a compact 
> program of 200-300KB that can turn C source code into binary.

Hey man! I remember when your gave me a heads up on that experimental 
HMAC encryption thing I was, from time to time, developing and working 
on. You prompted me to get it to compile on a nice variety of compilers, 
even your own. After conversing with you, it was more portable then 
ever! :^) Thanks for that, Bart!

It was the following thread. FWIW, I did a very crude port of it to 
JavaScript. The link goes to my site and decrypts it using the default 
Password, :^):

http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=d4b6b34ab20dfa991d9c6208b9bb4cefa2f3717bc7c76621c8bd217424afea592a053e32707b39c6529e03335c23a05d96bd8877f32eb307f431d00ddd2af51f4ac8101a225d6ef7e5aaed82089e56592f1118198ebd66ffb3dbd95e84948ce722246d0e12d84ec788d1aa58b836b14a9efedab6a5159b9e0cfad37a8aa7d289ad07796275c1b68cee141829193cbb6bd588559b618091d0f6


The plaintext there is:

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It was this thread:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/a53VxN8cwkY/m/WIxIwoK7DAAJ
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