Re: Bootstraping compilers ?

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland_Lei=DFa?= <roland.leissa@googlemail.com>
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:32:18 -0700 (PDT)

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland_Lei=DFa?= <roland.leissa@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-04-059
Keywords: design, debug
Posted-Date: 18 Apr 2008 11:59:49 EDT

Hello,

A compiler which can compile itself is definitely a nice feature, but
this is surely not a must have. There are compilers out there which
don't even understand their source language, i.e. a compiler for
languages Foo and Bar but the compiler itself is written in C.

But I would agree that a compiler written in Foo and understands Foo
should be able to compile itself. This is a really nice test.

Cheerz,
Roland

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