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dnolen 2025-07-31T12:50:39.697519Z
after spending two deep rounds w/ the DCE problem - I must say GCL is indeed really magical. Everytime I think it must be wrong - nope.
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dnolen 2025-07-31T12:52:12.077289Z
There's really nothing about the code we generate that it doesn't understand or can't handle.
xificurC 2025-07-31T13:06:51.760489Z
I had a deep bug that GCC broke under advanced compilation. Looking at the optimized code it butchered something. Had to change my macro to remove a redundant let binding. Not fun to debug
dnolen 2025-07-31T13:10:16.837099Z
I'm not saying there aren't bugs, subtle bugs are filed again GCC all the time. In 14 years I think I hit this one time myself but that was a very long time ago.
xificurC 2025-07-31T13:18:55.016859Z
Mine was 1 or 2 years ago. If what you're saying it's less buggy than typical software, great
dnolen 2025-07-31T13:47:52.323589Z
that's not what I'm talking about at all
dnolen 2025-07-31T13:49:03.913079Z
the standard library is very large w/ a lot of abstractions and some fairly weird patterns around codegen plus just a lot complicated data structures
dnolen 2025-07-31T13:49:53.560509Z
my point was simply that GCC understands everything in the code base and correctly detects dependencies
dnolen 2025-07-31T13:50:28.120429Z
everytime I thought there wasn't a dependency there was. Mostly talking about the limitations of my own brain here 😉