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measurablefuncyesterday at 11:54 PM1 replyview on HN

I think you are b/c you lack actual understanding of how compilers work & what it would mean to compile the same C code w/ two different conformant C compilers & get semantically different results.


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hackyhackytoday at 12:04 AM

> you lack actual understanding of how compilers work

My brother in Christ, please get off your condescending horse. I have written compilers. I know how they work. And also you've apparently never heard of undefined behavior.

The point is that the output is different at the assembly level, but that doesn't matter to the user. Just as output from an LLM but differ from another, but the user doesn't care.

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