John RegehrMar 2

won't say I'm totally proud of myself here, but once I saw that the Claude C compiler was super buggy according to YARPGen and Csmith, I had a hard time preventing myself from doing something about it

https://john.regehr.org/writing/claude_c_compiler.html

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Show threadzwarichMar 2
@regehr My first reaction when seeing the Claude C Compiler was “John Regehr is going to be able to milk this so hard”.
Show threadAssertionError("Joe Groff")Mar 3
@zwarich @regehr i just keep trying to find a backup of the classic "state of an 80s C compiler" tweet
Show threadzwarichMar 3
@joe @regehr Someone should prank Claude Code by giving it an ancient C compiler where struct field labels needed to be globally unique.
Show threadThalia Archibald

@zwarich @joe @regehr Alan Snyder's portable C compiler in 1976 (not the better known pcc by Steve Johnson descended from it) was, I believe, the first to have local struct names.

https://archive.org/details/snyder_c_differences_1978-04-04/page/n1/mode/1up

C Compiler Differences : Alan Snyder : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

C Compiler Differences by Alan Snyder, revised 4 April 1978, compares Snyder's portable C compiler and the UNIX C compiler (February 1977 version). Printed...

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