Re: Alternative C compilers on x86_64 Linux?

On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 2:02:33 PM UTC-5, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> LCC seems to be 32 bit only and requires very manual configuration.


LCC-WIN 32 and apparently 64 by Jacob Navia appeared to have spruced
up LCC with elements drawn from Watcom to make it a bona fide Windows
C compiler; rather than one that piggybacks on another compiler's
library or the system library. It accepts a bit more than C; and Navia
has been trying to push it into a form of C sufficiently enhanced as
to make C++ unnecessary; while still firmly rooted in that which makes
C distinctively C. The one way you can tell however that it is not in
an active life cycle is that a large examples and demo archive that
has been separately posted for it by others has not undergone any
substantial change in almost a decade. LCC and LCC-WIN's main drawback
is that they are NOT doing the types of analyses that a good compiler
ought to be doing but appear to be more akin to byte-code compilers.
You can see it by the run times compared to GCC on Linux on the same
CPU.

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