> I'd love to see a small - and fast - C compiler, and I'd be willing to
> make kernel changes to make it work with it.
I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing. At
some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever
reasonable C compiler is around:
- associative arrays as a builtin type
{
assoc bar = {}; // anonymous, no file backing
bar{"some key"} = "some value";
if (defined(bar{"some other value"})) ...
}
- regular expressions
{
char *foo = "blech";
if (foo =~ /regex are nice/) {
printf("Well isn't that special?\n");
}
}
- tk bindings built in
and then we'll port BK to that compiler. It's likely to be GCC because we
want to support all the different architectures but if a kernel sponsered
cc shows up we'll happily throw money at that.
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