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<matrix_bridge><cosinusoidally> I think it would be interesting to see if an LLM could port GCC to the M2-Planet dialect of C (or maybe even the easier task of porting tcc). Having said that I saw https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/ and I don't really want to burn through $20k to see if it's possible. I did finally have a play around with github copilot in their web UI and I managed to burn through my free tier limit...
<matrix_bridge>... in about 15 mins.
<matrix_bridge><cosinusoidally> It could be done iteratively (eg with the test suite being recompiling a vanilla copy of GCC and getting a bit identical copy).
<matrix_bridge><cosinusoidally> tbh attempting this on tcc would probably be the easier problem