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Short: Free optimizing ANSI C compiler (PPC/ELF)
Author: volker@vb.franken.de (Volker Barthelmann)
Uploader: volker@vb.franken.de (Volker Barthelmann)
Version: 0.7
Type: dev/c
Replaces: dev/c/vbcc.lha
vbcc - portable ANSI C compiler (c) in 1995-99 by Volker Barthelmann
INTRODUCTION
vbcc is a free portable and retargetable ANSI C compiler.
This archive contains the compiler, preprocessor, assembler, linker,
frontend, message browser, startup codes, C-libraries, amiga.lib
replacements as well as several other tools for PPC/ELF.
This gives you a complete system that allows to develop programs in
ANSI C as well as Amiga-specific programs (provided you obtain the
OS-includes) running on PPC/ELF.
All major parts of this distribution (including compiler, preprocessor,
libraries etc.) have been compiled/assembled with this system and
apart from the OS-includes everything needed to rebuilt vbcc,
the libraries and many of the other programs is contained in this
archive and the corresponding source archive.
Note that the programs in this archive all run on the 68k. There is
another archive which contains compilers that run on the PPC.
FEATURES
vbcc..
- comes with source
- is free
- is portable and retargetable
- comes with a global optimizer that can e.g. do global common
subexpression elimination, constant propagation, function inlining
and several other optimizations (but is not yet finished and may
have some bugs)
- should be ANSI compliant
- can generate code that runs on a plain 68000 CPU
- can generate code optimized for 020/030, 040 or 060
- can generate code that uses the 68881/2, 68040/060 FPUs directly
and comes with appropriate math-libraries
- can generate code that runs on PowerUp-boards
- generates standard Amiga-68k-objects, PPC-ELF-objects or
WarpOS-EHF-objects
- does not need too much memory
- comes with a message browser
- comes with a config program
- offers a lot of error/warning messages that can be turned on/off
separately
WHAT'S NEW
Some changes since the last release:
- bug fixes
- new optimizations
- much improved libaries
- use of Frank Wille's linker vlink
- support for PPC/WarpOS
- support for small data for PPC/ELF and PPC/WarpOS
- support for __saveds (68k, PPC/ELF and PPC/WarpOS)
- support for __far (68k, PPC/EFL and PPC/WarpOS)
- support for __chip (68k and PPC/WarpOS)
- support for auto opening of libraries (68k, PPC/ELF and PPC/WarpOS)
- cleaned up distributions for all three Amiga targets
- checking for unresolved symbols for PPC/ELF
- scheduler for PPC (ELF and WarpOS)
REQUIREMENTS
To use vbcc you need:
- an Amiga with OS 2.0 or higher
- enough RAM (it is possible to translate small programs with 1MB, but
for larger programs much more will be needed)
Stuff that is not needed, but may be very useful:
- harddisk
- editor
- make, touch etc.
- the Amiga OS-includes (they can be found on certain CDs)
- pipe-command (to use the message browser)
Also you should know how to use the shell and you should know ANSI C
(if you need a book I recommend (like everyone) "The C Programming
Language, Second Edition, ANSI C" by Kernighan and Ritchie).
Volker Barthelmann volker@vb.franken.de
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
24000 12858 46.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:36 +ar
90988 37832 58.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:38 +pasm
314584 132416 57.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:36 +vbccppc
14072 8221 41.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:36 +vc
36588 19935 45.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:38 +vcpp
69232 34224 50.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:38 +vlink
12828 7057 44.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:20 +vprof
41592 15036 63.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:38 +vscppc
6303 2409 61.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +building.doc
30554 8605 71.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +errors.doc
50461 17891 64.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +History
28898 10203 64.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +interface.doc
44961 8143 81.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:48 +pasm.doc
25948 8655 66.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +vbcc.doc
10374 4276 58.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vbcc.faq
4428 1836 58.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vbccalpha.doc
3331 1428 57.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vbccc16x.doc
4736 1955 58.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vbcci386.doc
13535 5016 62.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vbccm68k.doc
7518 2824 62.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vbccppc.doc
7075 2752 61.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vc.doc
3007 1483 50.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vcpp.doc
8035 2916 63.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:48 +vlink.doc
771 409 46.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vprof.doc
1803 916 49.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:26 +vsc.doc
26024 12999 50.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:40 +fd2libPPC
9280 5562 40.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:20 +genauto
1452 1021 29.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:40 +ppcrun
536 378 29.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +showerr
568 402 29.2% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +tovbr
13320 6791 49.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +vbrowse
25412 10696 57.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +vconfig
1576 883 43.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +vsend
1308 675 48.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +autolib.doc
2696 1127 58.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:28 +extralibPPC.doc
5174 2308 55.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:28 +fd2libPPC.doc
72511 14238 80.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +VBCCMessages.guide
5250 2180 58.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:28 +vclibPPC.doc
502 288 42.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:22 +vconfig.doc
0 0 0.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:20 +
594 201 66.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:20 +init_vbcc
742 288 61.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:38 +ppc
276 215 22.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +vbr.arexx
49024 19549 60.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +vpm
11189 4722 57.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:24 +vpm.guide
281 185 34.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:28 +assert.h
806 267 66.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +ctype.h
5419 1873 65.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +errno.h
910 288 68.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +extra.h
1028 313 69.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +float.h
452 176 61.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +limits.h
929 336 63.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +locale.h
629 220 65.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:30 +math.h
1161 289 75.1% 07-Mar-99 20:18:32 +all.h
161 126 21.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:32 +amigaguide.h
133 108 18.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:32 +asl.h
157 120 23.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:32 +battclock.h
149 117 21.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:32 +battmem.h
145 114 21.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:32 +bullet.h
150 118 21.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +cardres.h
133 108 18.7% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +cia.h
161 123 23.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +colorwheel.h
156 121 22.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +commodities.h
151 117 22.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +console.h
157 122 22.2% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +datatypes.h
138 112 18.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +disk.h
153 118 22.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +diskfont.h
136 111 18.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +dos.h
149 117 21.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +dtclass.h
169 115 31.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +exec.h
157 121 22.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +expansion.h
153 119 22.2% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +gadtools.h
148 116 21.6% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +graphics.h
137 111 18.9% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +icon.h
153 119 22.2% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +iffparse.h
141 113 19.8% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +input.h
163 114 30.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +intuition.h
145 117 19.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +keymap.h
145 116 20.0% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +layers.h
145 114 21.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +locale.h
153 120 21.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +lowlevel.h
136 111 18.3% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +misc.h
156 121 22.4% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +nonvolatile.h
141 112 20.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +potgo.h
155 120 22.5% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +ramdrive.h
153 119 22.2% 07-Mar-99 20:18:34 +re