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C11 compiler (mirror)

Language: C

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Ask HN: List of (open source) C compilers | Apr 2023

cproc: a C11 compiler

  *) https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc
  *) programming language used for the compiler: C
  *) using QBE as a backend - https://c9x.me/compile/

cproc – Small C11 compiler based on QBE | Aug 2022

Source on GitHub:

https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc

QBE Compiler back-end:

https://c9x.me/compile/

>"QBE is compiler backend that aims to provide 70% of the performance of industrial optimizing compilers in 10% of the code."

A minimal C compiler in x86 assembly | May 2022

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I'd be more optimistic. The cproc C compiler has only a very small team but it supports enough of the C language to compile GCC 4.7.

https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc

Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator | Apr 2022

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Perhaps the lightweight qbe compiler backend. [0] There's a C frontend for qbe called cproc. [1][2]

See also this talk [3] which discusses the relative ease of porting qbe, at 11:14.

[0] https://c9x.me/compile/

[1] https://sr.ht/~mcf/cproc/

[2] Official GitHub mirror: https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc

[3] https://spacepub.space/w/pjgvVL74xtFwqnaKuoCXZj?start=11m14s

Minias – A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning | Oct 2021

A word of warning for those wondering: this is not for Intel syntax, despite referencing the Intel doc.

Minias can assemble itself

...but it's written in C and uses a parser generator? IMHO it feels a bit backwards --- and perhaps even a bit cheating if you're doing this for a "bootstrap pilgrimage" --- to write a lower-level tool in a higher-level language. On the other hand, the same author also links to a C compiler in C, without a parser generator: https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc

Small C Compilers | Oct 2019

This one is fantastic: https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc