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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>> After reading the above I decided to try tcc.  I used tcc for
>> the first time earlier today.
>
> [...]
>
> You probably used tcc 0.9.27, the most recent release, from 2017.
>
> Development has continued, with a git repo at
>
>     git://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git
>
> The master branch hasn't gone past 9.9.27, but the "mob" branch has been
> updated as recently as 2024-03-22.  It builds in just a few seconds on
> my system.  The same version is available on godbot.org as "TCC (trunk)".
>
> I haven't paid much attention to what's actually been implemented
> post-0.9.27.  See the included Changelog if you're curious.  The one
> thing I've noticed is that the "mob" version implements the C99 rule
> that falling off the end of main does an implicit "return 0;",
> admittedly a minor point.
>
> I'm not suggesting you should build tcc from source and repeat the
> experiment (I suspect it wouldn't make much difference), but it's there
> if you're so inclined.

Thank you for the info.  If I were going to use tcc I would want to
use only the version that is standard for my environment, rather
than try to deal with a custom build, but maybe things will be
different in the future.