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vidarhyesterday at 9:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's a fun comparison, but with the notable difference that that one can compile the Linux kernel and generate code for multiple different architectures, while this one can only compile a small proportion of valid C. It's a great project, but it's not so much a C compiler, as a compiler for a subset of C that allows all programs this compiler can compile to also be compiled by an actual C compiler, but not vice versa.


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d_silinyesterday at 10:15 PM

But can it compile "Hello, World" example from its own README.md?

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1

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mojubatoday at 1:24 AM

Well I'm pretty sure the author can make a compliant C compiler in a few more sectors.