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Jul 16, 2015 at 18:09

GCC 5 defaults to C11 (from C89)! Fixes a paper cut for new C developers.

GCC 5 Release Series — Changes, New Features, and Fixes - GNU Project

Mar 8, 2026 at 22:03

Anthropic used Claude to write a C compiler in Rust (CCC). I've really enjoyed following the discussion. The initial post shows how they wrote the harness with GCC as an oracle and a prompt specifying a design using SSA. The author has clear domain expertise. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

Jan 7, 2023 at 07:33

A survey of parser generator usage in major language implementationss: https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html Most have a handwritten parser. GCC and Go moved from generated to handwritten. SQLite and Python <3.10 built their own parser generators!

Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021 | notes.eatonphil.com

Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021

Oct 16, 2022 at 04:25

Some fun examples of things you can do with type inference in Rust, from a GCC-rust contributor.

A deeper look into the GCC Rust front-end

Philip Herron and Arthur Cohen presented an update on the

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