Re: Bootstrapping theory?

sc@cs.unc.edu (Siddhartha Chatterjee)
5 Sep 1996 23:51:49 -0400

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From: sc@cs.unc.edu (Siddhartha Chatterjee)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Sep 1996 23:51:49 -0400
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
References: 96-09-014
Keywords: design, bibliography

Kjetil Valstadsve <eddie@voldsboks.pvv.ntnu.no> writes:
|> Does anyone have pointers to literature describing the process and
|> idea of writing a bootstrapped compiler? I've read the chapter in the
|> Dragon.


The best paper I have seen is:
"Self-compiling Compilers: An Appraisal of their Implementation and
Portability", by Olivier Lecarme and Marie-Claude Peyrolle-Thomas, in
Software: Practice and Experience 8, 149--170. 1978.


Also see the relevant portions of Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture
"Reflections on Trusting Trust".
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