On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com<bakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com> > wrote:
> 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. > > Don't forget objective-c++ :-). http://clang.llvm.org/features.html#simplecode has some interesting pictures and words
