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pcc[1] is in a pretty good state, it can compile most of NetBSD, and is under active development.

...which can compile a(n older, preprocessed, but none the less) Linux kernel "on the fly", while booting:

And Rob Landley wants to plug his fork of tcc into qemu code generator http://www.landley.net/qcc/ to do something that I do not completely understand but sounds awesome!

The source code for tcc is terrible compared to 8cc. I don't find its code readable at all.

Fabrice Bellards brain is incredible at getting functionality in a small amounts of code, but the code is not great for teaching.

See http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~varmaa/mini_c/ for a toy C compiler written in Python.

Doesn't build out of the box for me on Darwin 14.1.0, gcc-4.9. Does it need clang? configure script doesn't let you use anything but gcc ..

It says specificially in the readme is only supports linux currently. Also, CC=clang works fine on ubuntu.

I have tested on both Ubuntu and arch linux.