Re: Bootstraping compilers ?

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:32:59 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:32:59 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 08-04-059 08-04-068
Keywords: debug, practice
Posted-Date: 18 Apr 2008 19:48:20 EDT

On 2008-04-18, Roland Lei_a <roland.leissa@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.


Depends on the completeness of the support of "Foo" of
course. Specially with ever widening scope of language specifications
of modern languages this is often harder than one would expect.


Similarly the use of non standard extensions in the compiler.

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