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vbcc is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler. It supports ISO C according to ISO/IEC 9899:1989 and a subset of the new standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99). It is split into a target-independent and a target-dependent part, and provides complete abstraction of host- and target-arithmetic. Therefore, it fully supports cross-compiling for 8, 16, 32 and 64bit architectures.
Embedded systems are supported by features like different pointer-sizes (e.g. differently sized function- and object-pointers or near- and far-pointers), ROM-able code, inline-assembly, bit-types, interrupt-handlers, section-attributes, stack-calculation and many others (depending on the backend).
vbcc provides a large set of aggressive high-level optimizations as well as target-specific optimizations to produce faster or smaller code. Rather than restricting analysis and optimization to single functions or files, vbcc is able to optimize across functions and even modules. Target-independent optimizations include:
- cross-module function-inlining
- partial inlining of recursive functions
- inter-procedural data-flow analysis
- inter-procedural register-allocation
- register-allocation for global variables
- global common-subexpression-elimination
- global constant-propagation
- global copy-propagation
- dead-code-elimination
- alias-analysis
- loop-unrolling
- induction-variable elimination
- loop-invariant code-motion
- loop-reversal