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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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> 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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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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