Tiny C Compiler

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Tiny C Compiler

News

I am no longer working on TCC. Check the mailing list for up‑to‑date information.

Features

• SMALL! Compile and execute C code everywhere (e.g., on rescue disks). The x86 TCC executable is about 100 KB and includes the preprocessor, compiler, assembler, and linker.
• FAST! Generates native x86 code with no byte‑code overhead. Compilation, assembly, and linking are several times faster than GCC.
• UNLIMITED! Any C dynamic library can be used directly. TCC is moving toward full ISO C99 compliance and can even compile itself.
• SAFE! Optional memory and bounds checker; checked code can be mixed freely with standard code.
• Compile and execute C source directly—no separate linking or assembly step required. Full C preprocessor and GNU‑like assembler are included.
• C scripts are supported: add #!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run as the first line of a C source file and run it directly from the command line.
• With libtcc, TCC can be used as a backend for dynamic code generation.

Download

Download TCC

Compilation Speed

TCC is roughly 9 × faster than GCC for the Links Browser project.

The project contains 76 936 lines (including headers). Because the same headers are included in many files, 1 950 947 lines (67.2 MB) are actually compiled. Measurements were taken on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4; real time includes compilation, assembly, and linking.

More recent tests:

• Test 1
• Test 2
• Test 3
• Test 4

Online Documentation

Documentation

You Want to Help?

• Report bugs to the mailing list (and eventually fix them).

Links

• TinyCC mailing list
• Savannah project page and Git repository
• OTCC – the smallest self‑compiling pseudo C compiler
• FFASN1 – a small but powerful ASN.1 compiler
• LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
• SmartEiffel – compile Eiffel code faster with TCC
• The GNU C Compiler (GCC)
• The LCC Compiler
• The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)
• Cyclone – a safe dialect of C
• The D language
• Programming in C
• Scriptometer – evaluates various scripting languages (including TCC)

License

TCC is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

© 2001‑2018 Fabrice Bellard
Fabrice Bellard – TCC page