# Aro A C compiler with the goal of providing fast compilation and low memory usage with good diagnostics. Aro is included as an alternative C frontend in the [Zig compiler](https://github.com/ziglang/zig) for `translate-c` and eventually compiling C files by translating them to Zig first. Aro is developed in https://github.com/Vexu/arocc and the Zig dependency is updated from there when needed. Currently most of standard C is supported up to C23 and as are many of the common extensions from GNU, MSVC, and Clang Basic code generation is supported for x86-64 linux and can produce a valid hello world: ```sh-session $ cat hello.c extern int printf(const char *restrict fmt, ...); int main(void) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); return 0; } $ zig build run -- hello.c -o hello $ ./hello Hello, world! $ ```