Compilers as Teachers

We like to stress that Rust takes its commitment to developer friendliness very seriously, and that the Rust compiler considers confusing error messages a bug.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/compilers-as-teachers/

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Movfuscator - The single instruction C compiler

The Movfuscator compiles programs into "mov" instructions, and only "mov" instructions.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

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What Is Fast-Math?

-ffast-math is a compiler flag that enables a set of aggressive floating-point optimizations.

https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2021/understanding-fast-math/

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Do Developers Read Compiler Error Messages? [pdf]

https://static.barik.net/barik/publications/icse2017/PID4655707.pdf

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Beginners Guide to Linkers

What does collect2: ld returned 1 exit status mean? 🤔

https://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html

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How to write a very simple JIT compiler

https://github.com/spencertipping/jit-tutorial

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Writing a C compiler

https://norasandler.com/2017/11/29/Write-a-Compiler.html

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A toy programming language in 137 lines of Python code

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/building-a-toy-programming-language-in-python

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