tcc, tiny C compiler

[Seth David Schoen]

This is really quite remarkable.

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/

This is a very fast C compiler that produces tiny executables.
Perhaps more remarkably, it allows you to use C as a scripting
language, by putting #!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run at the top of a
C program.

One possibility for building small binaries on an lnx-bbc image
would to to use tcc to compile them, and another possibility
would be to include the source code of these programs and make it
executable scripts.

***@gardner:~ $ cat hello.c
#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){

int i;
for (i=1; i<=10; i++)
printf("hello %s %d\n", argv[1], i);
for (i=0; i<5; i++) { putchar(getchar()); putchar('\t'); }
putchar('\n');
exit(0);
}
***@gardner:~ $ echo hello | ./hello.c world
hello world 1
hello world 2
hello world 3
hello world 4
hello world 5
hello world 6
hello world 7
hello world 8
hello world 9
hello world 10
h e l l o
***@gardner:~ $

At the very least, tcc is a C compiler small enough to be included
comfortably on the lnx-bbc disk without including a full gcc. And
the binaries it produces are very small.

This is also very amazing:

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/tccboot.html