On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:31:45PM -0700, Charles Lohr wrote:
> It is crucial for TCC to remain as simple, fast, and have the smallest
> footprint possible.
 ...
> Mature codebases already use
> compiler-specific work-arounds and tweaks, so being "fully C11
> compliant" doesn't actually buy you anything.
 ...
> And for my purposes is a
> strict loss of suitability (because of the added code burdin).

 +1 to the whole text.

There are of course also codebases which deliberately assume a specific
advanced language version or even a specific implementation of the
toolchain, but they are by their choice and their design not the target
area of Tinycc, as long as "tiny" is rightfully kept in the name.

> I urge you please do not become obsessed with some sort of
> completionist death march.

Well said, thank you Charles.

/tccm

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