2026-09-22 21:19 UTC
People on fedi: We need a new C compiler to get away from what's happening to GCC!
Me: what about improving tack
People on fedi: what
https://tack.sourceforge.net/
The only issue is that it doesn't do x86-64 but, ehhh, it already targets the important stuff like SPARC and the 68K family and PowerPC and i386 if you really need x86
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt 2026-09-22 21:42
@techokami@woof.tech I asked the author on their stance on LLM, didn't hear back yet. I similarly asked the authors of pcc, and got a sad (non authoritative) reply that LLM contributions should be welcomed. I think it's unsafe to assume that something old/historic/niche is going to be safe from slop. At this point, only cproc is safe ;( not even tinycc, chibicc or Watcom
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@freya@social.highenergymagic.net 2026-09-23 06:41
@techokami@woof.tech oh what's happening to GCC? Also, Sun Studio exists!