Tiny C Compiler

It's not just a tiny C compiler - it's a compiler you can use as a static library that can compile your C code directly to memory. And then you can call into it, if you dare. I used it as a scripting backend for a long time, but eventually you will realize that you are not the only one that could write scripts, but you also really need to have a trust boundary (or just a different address space)…

The code of TCC (0.9.26) is kind hard to compile, I have discovered in the past year, while developing a minimal C compiler to compile the TCC sources [1]. For that reason, I have concluded that TCC is its own test set. It uses the constant 0x80000000, which is an edge case for if you want to print it as a signed integer only using 32-bit operators. There is a switch statement with an post-increment operator in the switch expression…

I'm a HUGE fan of TCC -- I've recently added a pretty cool feature to simavr: a way to translate the whole AVR core into 'C' and JIT compile it using libtcc (the backend of tcc). Result is amazing speed for emulation! https://github.com/buserror/simavr/tree/jit-wip

Fabrice Bellard is one of my hacker idols