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+= TinyC for the SD-8516
+== Introduction
+TinyC refers to V1 (tinyc.asm) and V2 (tinyc.c), which is the same as V1 but written in C. V1 is intended to compile V2, and then we have self-hosting C. Thus, this TinyC should be more like the "B" language in it's feature set, and in the idea that it is intended to compile a version of itself written in C. From there, we can iterate on the C compiler and make it better.
+V1 Current Feature Set:
+* Expressions with precedence
+* Local variables
+* if/else/else if
+* Comparison operators
+* while
+* break/continue
+* Multiple functions + function calls
+* Function arguments
+* Pointers (read, write, address-of)
+* Array indexing
+* char* (8-bit access)
+* String literals
+* Hex literals
+* Character literals
+* Comments (<nowiki>//</nowiki>)
+* Global variables
+* Builtins (putchar, getchar, halt, yield)
+This is enough that I was able to start writing functions in C like abs, min, max, strlen, strcmp, atoi/itoa, and so on.
+== Function Library
+* [[List of TinyC built-in functions]]
+== History
+A self-hosting C compiler had been my goal for quite some time. But I didn't know how to write one. I hacked out a BASIC first, then followed some guides and source code to get a Forth running. But C eluded me for several months. Eventually I was able to leverage what I had learned doing BASIC to get a parser that could compile int main(void) { return 0; } and emitted LDA #0 and RET. The debugger was simply printing the return value. The rest of the story is found in the [[TinyC Developer Diary]]. Mainly so I don't forget what I learned, as this project has gotten quite big.