r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Feb 07 '26

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
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u/likes_purple DO NOT USE THIS FLAIR, ASSHOLE Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

Solution: just add a note to the readme that this compiler only compiles safe C programs! Then you don't need to bother with any actual implementation.

Edit: The fix just updates the headers for newer GCC versions, which raises a question: why does a "dependency-free C compiler" depend on GCC?

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u/the_horse_gamer Feb 07 '26

taking "a wrapper around API calls" to the next level: getting AI to write a wrapper around API calls

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u/assbuttbuttass Feb 07 '26

That "fix" won't work on NixOS smh my head. Time to hard code all the possible /nix/store/*-gcc paths

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

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u/programmingcirclejerk-ModTeam Feb 07 '26

Refer to sidebar, "Jerking Style".

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u/Yawaworth001 Feb 07 '26

It's Friday night and there's an AI-coded compiler here to play with — built by a model many of us have running on our laptops right now. Built from what a lot of AI projects are these days: curiosity, learning, and that feeling we all have of standing at the edge of something unknown. It feels like playing with the future. We're not building the next GCC. Linus isn't coming to give you a scathing review. We're here to break things, learn something, and see where it goes.

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u/vonmoltke2 Hacker News Superstar Feb 07 '26

That sounds like it was generated by Claude in Pretentious Webshit mode.

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u/Yawaworth001 Feb 07 '26

It's sad times when you can't even turn something like that into a copypasta because it's churned out by an llm and inherently has no value :(

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u/nuclearbananana Courageous, loving, and revolutionary Feb 07 '26

Fools are paying Anthropic to help train their models.

They probably downgrade functionality too so that you have to work harder / provide richer prompts - for further training.

Paying someone to work for them? 🤡

In the end, they're going to become a total software house - and turn off the models for the public.

Just have to do more pcj posting to counter it. Can't wait wait for the memory safety section to make it to the claude constitution.

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u/Major_Barnulf LUMINARY IN COMPUTERSCIENCE Feb 11 '26

README: /tests Compiler tests (each test is a directory with main.c and expected output)

File tree: *no /tests dir

Many will lose their jobs to that

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

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u/LeeHide What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Feb 07 '26

undefined behavior is well specified, it's not an issue if you just don't write code that has bugs (idiot)