What a coincidence, just yesterday I asked an LLM to generate a C compiler for the 8051 because SDCC's output was not optimized. Within an 1.5 hour it was correctly compiling my project at 60% of the size of what SDCC generates. One or 2 quota refreshes later it passed the SDCC test suite and optimized soft floats.

https://github.com/jyaif/cc51

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oasisaimlessly an hour ago | parent [-]

I assume you're running that test suite using a 3rd party 8051 emulator to avoid the potential for common-mode errors in both your compiler and emulator resulting in false confidence the compiler's correctness?

> two simulators used for testing, sim51 (a plain 8051) and minitel_sim

Narrator: No, he was not.

	▲	Jyaif an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"it runs on my device" is my criteria of success here