Suggestion: include OrangeC in compiler-explorer

[GitMensch]

It is nice to be able to compare the results of compilers, and also gives the project some additional visibility.

Adding OrangeC to compiler-explorer would mean to add it to its main repo into the existing C and C++ definitions, similar to

https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/blob/main/lib/compilers/zig.ts
https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/blob/main/lib/compilers/zigcc.ts

https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/blob/main/etc/config/c%2B%2B.amazonwin.properties
https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/blob/main/etc/config/c.amazonwin.properties

and also to integrate it to the infrastructure repository, see

https://github.com/compiler-explorer/infra/blob/main/bin/yaml/zig.yaml.

Note: before this is done it is likely useful to ensure that the codegen works nicely for the examples, including the optimized ones, those are available at https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/tree/main/examples/c
https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/tree/main/examples/c++

After that it is likely a good to create a new compiler issue there and discuss the necessary steps and if they may could do part of the actual work.

[LADSoft]

this sounds interesting... thank you.

[LADSoft]

I will probably start evaluating the examples next weekend...

[LADSoft]

ok so i looked at the code gen... as always there could be improvements but they are minor and I'm not making them now.

but i did check that the /sxx compiler switch still works and that aligned_alloc works as desired.... hadn't checked either of those in a while.

i noticed that the c++ 'alignas' didn't work the way I thought it should and will make a separate issue for that...

The only change I made for this is to add the __restrict keyword.

Next time I do a release I will submit orangec to this site...