On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 08:22:03AM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Sylvain BERTRAND <sylw...@legeek.net> wrote: > > There is also the question of finding a new C99 optimizing > > compiler written properly in C of course. > > > > tinycc is interesting. It would require just a few basic > > optimization passes to make it a reasonable alternative to gcc. > > > > There is also the openwatcom compiler. > > > > Anything else? > > I’ve been curious about libfirm and cparser but haven't looked at them > closely yet. > > “Firm is a C-library that provides a graph-based intermediate > representation, optimizations, and assembly code generation suitable > for use in compilers.” > > http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/firm/
If it has basic semantic optimization passes, it is quite interesting. > “cparser is a library containing a parser, lexer and semantic analysis > for the ISO C99 language. It should be used as a compiler frontend, a > base for source-source transformation, or source-checker tools.” > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cparser/ That would require to code the optimization passes.
