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lcc, A Retargetable Compiler for ANSI C

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Download release 4.2: gzip'd tar file (624K) · compress'd tar file (1063K) · ZIP archive (784K).

Download lcc.NET, an lcc 4.2 backend for MSIL: ZIP archive (141K).

lcc is a retargetable compiler for Standard C. It generates code for the ALPHA, SPARC, MIPS R3000, and Intel x86 and its successors. lcc is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.princeton.edu in /pub/packages/lcc; the README file gives the details. Here's what else is available:

• A updated, complete description of the lcc 4.x Code-Generation Interface (PDF 256K).
• The lcc 4.2 distribution LOG and README files.
• The introduction and a sample chapter from A Retargetable C Compiler.
• Using ASDL with lcc 4.1.
• cdb, a machine-independent debugger.
• User-contributed software is available in /pub/packages/lcc/contrib; its README lists the contributions and gives instructions for contributors.
• lcc 3.6 source code.
• A bibliography of lcc-related papers and talks.

lcc is described in A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation (Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0805316701, ISBN-13 9780805316704). This book is a detailed tour of the lcc 3.6 source code. The ftp distribution includes the source code for the complete compiler, the code generators for all its targets, and the code-generator generator that produced them. See the preface and table of contents for more details.

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