SCC – Small C Compiler for DOS

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28 points·elvis70··7 comments

I'm pleased to see that this compiler is designed to bootstrap itself.

Until now I wasn't aware of any open-source C compilers that support 16-bit DOS real mode and can also run in 16-bit DOS real mode. (OpenWatcom is far too large and DJGPP is strictly 32-bit protected mode only.)

Thanks. Ideally I'd have liked if bootstrapping only required an assembler (and then successively more advanced versions could compiler the next in line), but this was enough of a challenge for a side project. Maybe later :)

Not to be confused with this SCC? http://www.simple-cc.org/

Author here. Sorry for the confusing naming, the "S"-prefix came before I'd figured out a good name (to match my assembler/DOS project https://github.com/mras0/sasm). Tiny CC would have been a better name, but (as mentioned in another comment) was already taken by a superior project. I hadn't heard about the other SCC before.

Don't be sorry for the name. It's fine. If you called your compiler "Stanley Kubrick" someone would complain because it could be confused with the famous director. If you called it "BR549" someone would complain that it's not really HeeHaw. Because it requires little imagination, little effort, and provides an air of superiority, people are likely to complain about any name. Good luck.

TinyCC is easy to confuse with the well known Tiny C Compiler (usually abbreviated TCC) by Fabrice Bellard though ;)

There's also SDCC, the "Small Device C Compiler".

Also not to be confused with the Tiny C Compiler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler

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