Comment by chubot
3 hours ago
There was also "boringcc"
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/boringcc
As a boring platform for the portable parts of boring crypto software, I'd like to see a free C compiler that clearly defines, and permanently commits to, carefully designed semantics for everything that's labeled "undefined" or "unspecified" or implementation-defined" in the C "standard" (DJ Bernstein)
And yeah I feel this:
The only thing stopping gcc from becoming the desired boringcc is to find the people willing to do the work.
(Because OSH has shopt --set strict:all, which is "boring bash". Not many people understand the corners well enough to disallow them - https://oils.pub/ )
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And Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C (2014)
It is kind of ironic, given the existence of Orthodox C++, and kind of proves the point, that C isn't as simple as people think, having only read the K&R C book and nothing else.
> in the C "standard"
Oof, those passive-aggressive quotes were probably deserved at the time.