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Per [1], Zig seems to have its own C compiler (AFAICT it's not just a frontend to an existing one) [1] https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-rep

• flohofwoe 2y ago
  Currently, zig cc is the Clang frontend which is linked into the Zig compiler (most things in that blog post are about differences between the Zig toolchain and a typical Clang toolchain for cross-compilation, and how Zig invokes the Clang frontend). I'm not sure what the current plan is for C compilation after the LLVM divorce and after Clang will be moved into a Zig package (e.g. I remember talk that arocc [1] is going to be integrated into the Zig compiler, but not sure if that's still planned, or if C compilation will also be delegated to the new Clang package along with C++ and ObjC compilation). [1] https://github.com/Vexu/arocc https://github.com/Vexu/arocc