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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:02:56 +0000
From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: Jeff Muizelaar <muizelaar@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.95 vs 3.21 performance
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Jeff Muizelaar wrote:-

> There is also tcc (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/)
> It claims to support gcc-like inline assembler, appears to be much 
> smaller and faster than gcc. Plus it is GPL so the liscense isn't a 
> problem either.

It doesn't expand macros correctly, however, and accepts an enormous
range of invalid code without a single diagnostic.  I'm pretty sure
it's arithmetic rules are incorrect, too.  It's certainly nowhere
near C89 compliance.

Neil.