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Per [1], Zig seems to have its own C compiler (AFAICT it's not just a frontend to an existing one)

[1] https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

Currently, zig cc is the Clang frontend which is linked into the Zig compiler (most things in that blog post are about differences between the Zig toolchain and a typical Clang toolchain for cross-compilation, and how Zig invokes the Clang frontend).

I'm not sure what the current plan is for C compilation after the LLVM divorce and after Clang will be moved into a Zig package (e.g. I remember talk that arocc [1] is going to be integrated into the Zig compiler, but not sure if that's still planned, or if C compilation will also be delegated to the new Clang package along with C++ and ObjC compilation).

[1] https://github.com/Vexu/arocc

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