On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:52:35 GMT Charles Forsyth <fors...@terzarima.net> wrote: > > >$ size /usr/local/bin/clang > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > >22842862 1023204 69200 23935266 16d3922 > > >/usr/local/bin/clang > > i suppose a more useful comment might be a question: > how does a C compiler get to be that big? what is all that code doing?
It is a C/C++/Obj-C compiler & does static analysis, has backends for multiple processor types as well as C as a target, a lot of optimization tricks etc. See llvm.org. But frankly, I think they have lost the plot. C is basically a portable assembly programming language & in my highly biased opinion a C compiler should do no more than peephole optimizations. If you want more, might as well use a high level language.