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Old C Compiler Lives Again Under GPL

Posted by timothy on from the just-what-I-was-looking-for dept.

JordanH writes "The DeSmet-C compiler, a commercial C compiler from the '80s, is being released under the GPL. Yet another alternative C compiler implementation available for your coding pleasure."

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  1. RTFA! by dotzie · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the FA:

    """
    There are other, smaller options like TCC that is a complete C compiler, but it's too geared to 386+ and Linux to be a good playground. Other open-source C compilers tend to be variations of Small C that, while understandable, don't implement the entire language.
    """

  2. Re:Not for serious use by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Informative

    for that purpose, lcc is pretty good. The source is available for free, but there's also a college-level compiler book which goes along with it. The parsing and lexing are done manually (rather than generated via flex/lex and bison/yacc).

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