Questions tagged [compile-time]
For challenges involving doing something at compile-time, rather than run-time. This means that only compiled languages can compete.
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Build a Compiler Bomb
Introduction
You're probably familiar with zip bombs, XML bombs, etc. Put simply, they are (relatively) small files which produce enormous output when interpreted by naïve software. The challenge ...
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Crash your favorite compiler [closed]
Write a perfectly legal code in a decent language of your choice whose compiling will either crash the compiler or send it into an infinite loop (infinite compile time).
Restrictions:
Use a standard ...
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Interpreted arithmetic
A little known fact is that if you turn on enough language extensions (ghc) Haskell becomes a dynamically typed interpreted language! For example the following program implements addition.
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