Obscure C/C++ compilers

[T-Aoki]

I had no idea what a GRCG was, but a quick search revealed that it was probably one of the first GPUs.

Graphics systems of NEC PC-98 - radioc.dat

Exactly. It stands for GRaphics CharGer. But the next generation, EGC (Enhanced Graphics Charger) used in PC-9801 VX was far more faster, including the differences in CPU power between V30 and i80286.

 

[vmb]

I had a look in FreshPorts and found these two:

FreshPorts -- devel/bcc: Bruce's C compiler (with as and ld); can do 16-bit code

This is Bruce Evans' C compiler and binutils package. Either the compiler as the assembler are able to generate 16-bit code. Hence it's possible to compile BIOS and DOS code under Unix. The C compiler does understand K&R1 syntax, with a few restrictions regarding bit fields. See the file...

www.freshports.org

FreshPorts -- lang/nwcc: Nils Weller's C compiler for Unix systems

nwcc is a small C compiler for Unix systems under the BSDL The primary goals of nwcc currently are portability and correctness. Various C99 and GNU C features are also supported. It works with FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris/Linux on 80x86, FreeBSD/Linux on AMD64, Solaris on SPARC, AIX on PowerPC, and...

www.freshports.org

And then I found this interesting package that I had not noticed before:

FreshPorts -- lang/awka: Converts the AWK script to C, then compiles it

Awka is an open-source implementation of the AWK programming language. Awka is not an interpreter like Gawk, Mawk or Nawk, but instead it converts the program to ANSI-C, then compiles this using gcc or a native C compiled to create a binary executable. This means you must have an ANSI C...

www.freshports.org

I am trying that out now...

 

[T-Aoki]

I was intrigued by the name and wondered if it was a C Interpreter. I found the manuals.

C-terp V2.0 Lattice Variant and Updates : Gimpel Software : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Manuals for C-terp 2.0 Lattice variant and various later updates.

archive.org

Yes, that's it!

 

[kpedersen]

Some that I have played with in the past are:

LCC for q3vm. The special part of this is really that the Quake III VM is a single (small) .c file.

I maintain a copy of CFront (leaked source) for personal use. I like the idea of dusting it off for if I ever need to port some C++ to a platform where the vendor only provides a C compiler. Its not happened yet admittedly and this compiler is also a little broken; exceptions famously don't work and I can't quite seem to fix the template system to work in a robust manner. Possibly q3vm or DOS targets were my original intention.

Then there is TenDRA which was a C++ compiler written by the UK Defence Research Agency (DRA) which later branched into Dstl (public) and QinetiQ (private). It still seems to be loosly maintained.