$ gcc -xc - <<<"int main(int argc, char **argv) { long long long a; return 0; }"
<stdin>: In function ‘main’:
<stdin>:1:45: error: ‘long long long’ is too long for GCChttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html
> This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message
That's why the joke works.
You: $ gcc -xc - <<<"int main(int argc, char *argv) { long long long a; return 0; }"
Compiler: <stdin>:1:45: error: ‘long long long’ is too long for GCC
You: Do it again, damn it, but this time show no errors!
"I'm sorry, as as an ML compiler I can't let you link glibc statically."
You will be amazed how much of my skill with computers comes down to channeling Obsessive Defiance Disorder into digging into how to do what the compiler writers don't want to let me do, and doing it my way. With tests.