Re: Self compiling compiler

ERSHC <ershc123@nyc.rr.com>
Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:58:18 -0000 (UTC)

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From: ERSHC <ershc123@nyc.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:58:18 -0000 (UTC)
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Posted-Date: 03 Apr 2016 10:35:31 EDT

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 03:54:00 -0000 (UTC), ERSHC <ershc123@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I'd like to teach an undergraduate class based on the Thompson hack
> (see Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture). I don't want to write a
> "whole" compiler, so need a compiler that can compile itself,
> preferably one that runs under Linux and is reasonably small. Can
> anyone point me to something more appropriate than gcc (which is far
> from small)?
>
> Thanks.


Wow! Thanks to all for the suggestions. I seem to have some work cut
out for me chosing among the plethora of resources.



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