Alternatives

Products that do what Smart pointers for the C programming language does

1AW
A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch▲159
2021 · github.com
2BA
Bic – a C interpreter and API explorer▲181
2019 · github.com
3MO
My own C compiler (just for fun)▲175
2016 · github.com
4AS
A simple garbage collector for C▲192
2019 · github.com
5DM
Dangless-malloc – Safe dangling pointer errors (master thesis)▲66
2018 · dangless.gaborkozar.me
6CP
C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor▲97
2021 · sentido-labs.com
7AM
A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C▲172
2015 · github.com
8CL
C library of generic, reference-counted data structures▲91
2013 · theck01.github.io
9AA
Ape – an easy-to-embed programming language in two C files▲90
2020 · github.com
10CA
Chibicc – A Small C Compiler▲22
2020 · github.com
11CA
Calc, a simple command-line calulator in C▲31
2015 · github.com
12CU
Compiler using Lisp’s macro system for metaprogramming C-like languages▲80
2018 · github.com
13PA
Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing▲166
2021 · github.com
14CF
Compiler Fundamentals – Closure Conversion▲70
2019 · gist.github.com
15MF
Minimal freestanding C runtime for bare-metal/embedded PC projects▲97
2015 · github.com
16AP
A practical C library that not depend on other libraries▲5
2022 · water-melon.github.io
17YY
Yupp, yet another C preprocessor▲26
2015 · github.com
18AT
A thread hierarchy management library in C▲53
2020 · github.com
19WM
Writing my first interpreter in C for fun▲109
2016 · github.com
20AP
a practical Lisp in C▲5
2021 · github.com
21FC
Flexible C memory allocation scheme with leak checking▲52
2016 · github.com
22CA
Circular, an open source clone of Buffer▲160
2012 · circular.io
23FA
Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C▲143
2020 · github.com
24TA
TOCC – A Tiny DFA to C Compiler▲9
2020 · github.com

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