Editing LCC (compiler) (section)

==LCC==

LCC is intended to be very simple to understand and is well-documented; its design is described in Fraser and Hanson's book ''A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation''. The book includes most of the source code for version 3.6 of the compiler, which was written as a [[literate programming|literate program]] using [[noweb]]. As of July 2011 the current version of LCC is 4.2, but much of the book still applies to this version. The major change since the book was published is in the code-generator interface, which is described in a separate document.<ref>{{cite web |title=The lcc 4.x Code-Generation Interface |last1=Fraser |first1=Christopher W. |last2=Hanson |first2=David R. |date=July 2001 |publisher=Microsoft Research |id=Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-64 |url=http://storage.webhop.net/documents/interface4.pdf |access-date=5 July 2011}}</ref>

The source code for LCC is around 20,000 lines, which is much smaller than many major compilers.<ref>
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LCC can generate code for several processor architectures, including [[DEC Alpha|Alpha]], [[SPARC]], [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], and [[x86]]; there is also an LCC backend that generates Microsoft's [[Common Intermediate Language]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lcc.NET: Targeting the .NET Common Intermediate Language from Standard C |last1=Hanson |first1=David R. |date=March 2004 |publisher=Microsoft Research |url=http://storage.webhop.net/documents/msil-spe.pdf |access-date=22 July 2012}}</ref>