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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
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On 18/06/2024 13:40, David Brown wrote:
> On 17/06/2024 21:24, bart wrote:
>> On 17/06/2024 14:43, David Brown wrote:
>>> On 17/06/2024 12:30, bart wrote:
>>>> On 17/06/2024 07:22, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>>> On 6/13/24 10:43, Michael S wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:53:54 +0200
>>>>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>>>> ...
> 
>> If you don't need optimised code right now, why would you invoke gcc 
>> rather than tcc? It's a no-brainer.
> 
> You might use tcc if you have no brain.  People who do C development 
> seriously don't use the compiler just to generate an exe file.  gcc is a 
> development tool, not just a compiler.  (As is clang, and MSVC.)  If you 
> think compilation speed of a subset of C is all that matters, you are 
> not doing C development.
> 

It's all that mattered in the context that you snipped. Which actually 
/isn't/ C development; the C has been generated by a program. This 
hardly an uncommon use of a C compiler; there, all you want of it is (1) 
to generate executable code (2) perhaps make it generate fast code.

There are a number of use-cases where the extra capabilities of C aren't 
relevant.

If I do this:

     gcc prog.c
     del a.exe

where 'del a.exe' is done by mistake (or perhaps I do 'gcc prog2.c' 
which wipes out a.exe; I like super-smart compilers!), then I have to do 
'gcc prog.c' again.

But it has already been analysed, and nothing has changed; I just want a 
translation from .c file to .exe file.