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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by astrange on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:00AM (#46910992)
> The result is a fuzzy reproduction of the training input, specifically of the compilers contained within.

Is it? I'm somewhat familiar with gcc and clang's source and it doesn't really particularly look like it to me.

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/blob/main/s...

https://llvm.org/doxygen/LoopStrengthReduce_8cpp_source.html

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/gimple-ssa...

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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by gmueckl on Friday February 06, 2026 @10:49AM (#46914290)
Checking for similarity with compilers that consist of orders of magnitudes more code probably doesn't reveal much. There many more smaller compilers for C-adjacent languages out there pkus cod3 fragments from text books.
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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by astrange on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:36PM (#46915746)
There are not many more compilers with the specific optimization pass I linked.

Also, I don't think you could reuse code from a different compiler unless you used the same IR.

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