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Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by rui314 » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 3:10 AM UTC

philips4350 wrote: post #22

Oh man I used to be a die hard fan of the author's 'turing complete fm[1]' podcast. It seems like he has stopped publishing new episodes, wonder what happened. [1] https://turingcomplete.fm/

Nothing in particular has happened to me, but producing a high quality podcast episodes takes time, and I didn't have enough time for doing that.

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by rui314 » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 3:16 AM UTC

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #16

maybe the author can verify, from what I could see it generates assembler files that one should save to a .S file and then can be run with gcc's `cc -o executable file.S`.

It produces a .S file if `-S` flag was given. By default, it produces a .S file in a temporary and assemble it with `as` and write its output object file (an .o) file is produced as an output from the compiler.

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by ncmncm » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

carapace wrote: post #31

Awesome project! > When I find a bug in this compiler, I go back to the original commit that introduced the bug and rewrite the commit history as if there were no such bug from the beginning. This is an unusual way of fixing bugs, but as a a part of a book, it is important to keep every commit bug-free. Ooo la la! "Chibicc Vol. II, The Bugs" !? In all seriousness, a book about the bugs would be (IMO) even more fun to…

I would read that book.

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 6:06 AM UTC

wang_li wrote: post #24

stiray wrote: post #19

https://bellard.org/tcc/ Probably best know and with loooong beard...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C This is what I think of when I see Small C as a proper noun.

Me as well, that was my introduction to C, before I eventually had access to Turbo C 2.0 for MS-DOS.

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by philips4350 » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 10:14 AM UTC

rui314 wrote: post #41

philips4350 wrote: post #22

Oh man I used to be a die hard fan of the author's 'turing complete fm[1]' podcast. It seems like he has stopped publishing new episodes, wonder what happened. [1] https://turingcomplete.fm/

Nothing in particular has happened to me, but producing a high quality podcast episodes takes time, and I didn't have enough time for doing that.

Oh I see, thank you for your response. I'm glad that you intend to continue the podcast, can't wait for the next episode :)

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by philips4350 » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 10:16 AM UTC

xcudfg89du8fg90 wrote: post #32

philips4350 wrote: post #22

Oh man I used to be a die hard fan of the author's 'turing complete fm[1]' podcast. It seems like he has stopped publishing new episodes, wonder what happened. [1] https://turingcomplete.fm/

Hard to tell. Maybe some die hard fan could shed some light

I follow him on Twitter and I haven't seen any 'official' info reading the podcast. But Mr.Rui did confirm in this thread that he would be continuing the podcast so seems like it will continue :)

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by philips4350 » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 10:16 AM UTC

triyambakam wrote: post #28

philips4350 wrote: post #22

Oh man I used to be a die hard fan of the author's 'turing complete fm[1]' podcast. It seems like he has stopped publishing new episodes, wonder what happened. [1] https://turingcomplete.fm/

Looks like it's a Japanese podcast? Or is there an English version?

Oh, yes the podcast is only in Japanese.

Re: Chibicc: A Small C Compiler

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Post by apricot » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

carapace wrote: post #31

Awesome project! > When I find a bug in this compiler, I go back to the original commit that introduced the bug and rewrite the commit history as if there were no such bug from the beginning. This is an unusual way of fixing bugs, but as a a part of a book, it is important to keep every commit bug-free. Ooo la la! "Chibicc Vol. II, The Bugs" !? In all seriousness, a book about the bugs would be (IMO) even more fun to…

Relevant: Knuth's paper "The Errors of TeX"

https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf