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Re: Verifying Toolchain Semantics


From: Mark H Weaver
Subject: Re: Verifying Toolchain Semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:13:09 -0400
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Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <address@hidden> writes:

> In your PDF analogy, the solution is to write a spurious
> amount of PDF implementations.  Or for C, to implement a spurious amount
> of C compilers.  That is impractical because C is complex.  What might
> be practical might be to write one new C compiler (guaranteed clean,
> since it's new), and verify GCC with that[*].  What's more useful in the
> long term is to define a much simpler language, and base our everything
> on that instead of on C.

Okay, so why does he insist on using PDF to distribute an essay that is
just plain text anyway?  He should practice what he preaches.

      Mark



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