Re: Self compiling compiler

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Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT)

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From: alexfrunews@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
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Keywords: C, tools
Posted-Date: 31 Mar 2016 16:00:15 EDT

On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 7:47:59 AM UTC-7, ERSHC 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.


Per a Reddit commenter, this very task has been done with my compiler:
https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC
Alex

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