Would be a lot better if it came with tests. Please do this justice and dont let it rot as a gist, make a real repo and add some docs and at least smoke tests or some kind. Thanks

Pure shell. Love the minimalism here... especially when every tiny CLI tool these days seems to require a 50MB node_modules folder just to run. There’s a certain Zen in doing things with zero dependencies. Reminds me of why I got into Unix in the first place.

I'm tempted to execute it, but it may as well be shellcode I couldn't tell.

It targets x86-64/ELF? I thought it would target `sh` to be portable?

Single standalone file, no external tools used, PATH='' (empty), portable (bash, dash, ksh, zsh), produces x86 ELF executables, has mini-libc builtin.

Usage:

printf 'int main(){puts("hello");return 0;}' | sh c89cc.sh > hello

chmod +x hello

./hello

Many parts of this are clearly autogenerated, but that in no way diminishes the sickening impressiveness of it!