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How the GNU C compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have ...

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," ...

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...
Hackaday

c compiler

Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64. That’s not to ...