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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by vbezhenar on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:39PM (#46909200)
What's so hard about it? Compiler construction is well researched topic and taught in the universities. I made toy language compiler as a student. May be I'm underestimating this task, but I think that I can build some simple C compiler which will output trivial assembly. Given my salary of $2500, that would probably take me around a year, so that's pretty close LoL.
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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by cma on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:25AM (#46914854)
You can one shot prompt a toy C compiler. Getting one that can compile Linux in a bootable way is significantly harder.
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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by f1shy on Sunday February 08, 2026 @08:03AM (#46933859)
Everybody talks as Linux is the most difficult thing to compile in the world. The reality is that linux is well written and designed with portability with crappy compilers in mind from the beginning.

Also, the booting part, as stated some times, is discutable.

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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by icedchai on Sunday February 08, 2026 @01:30PM (#46937076)
The reality is you can build Linux with gcc and clang. And that’s it. Years ago you could use Intel’s icc compiler, but that stopped being supported. Let’s stop pretending it’s an undergrad project.
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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by cma on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:59PM (#46939483)
Just writing a non-toy C preprocessor is non-trivial.
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