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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

117 points by valyala

by mati365

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Oh, it looks like my X86-16 boot sector C compiler that I made recently [1]. Writing boot sector games has a nostalgic magic to it, when programming was actually fun and showed off your skills. It's a shame that the AI era has terribly devalued these projects.
[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler

by xorvoid

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by mojuba

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Compare that to the C compiler in 100,000 lines written by Claude in two weeks for $20,000 (I think was posted on HN just yesterday)

by sanufar

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The way hashing is used for tokens and for making a pseudo symbol table is such an elegant idea.

by riedel

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Beautiful, but make sure to quickly add 2023 to the title.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064971

by gonzus

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Lacking support for structs, I think this is too minimalistic to be called "a C compiler".

by NooneAtAll3

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> I wrote a fairly straight-forward and minimalist lexer and it took >150 lines of C code
was it supposed to be "<150"?

by SeanSullivan86

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by kayo_20211030

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