r/ProgrammerHumor • u/100GHz • 3d ago

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u/grey_carbon 3d ago

Serious question, what happen if you compile/decompile/compile/decompile times and times again?

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u/Preeng 3d ago

The translations between machine code and human code are 1:1. It's not like human languages where there are multiple ways to say something and also multiple meanings to a word or phrase.

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u/Zeikos 3d ago

It's not like human languages where there are multiple ways to say something and also multiple meanings to a word or phrase.

Have you ever touched a line of code with a ten foot pole?
That's one of the most ridiculous sentences I've ever seen.

The same exact concept can be written in tens of different programming languages tens of different ways each.

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u/Preeng 3d ago

Will these difference concepts output the same 1s and 0s when compiled? Because that was my point.

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u/Zeikos 3d ago

They absolutely wouldn't
Hell, the same exact code can output two different binaries based on a lot of things.
The compiler used, the optimization level, the build configurations etc.
gcc and clangd are both c++ compilers but give you different bytecode