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Re: [Tinycc-devel] c89
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Re: [Tinycc-devel] c89 |
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Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:36:09 +0200 |
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 06:42:45AM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote:
> > Does someone have a concrete example of a c89 compiler they hope to
> > boostrap from? Preferably one that can be downloaded and run (maybe in
> > an emulator) without payment. For bootstrapping purposes, there are many
> > workarounds that can be considered that might not fly for a production
> > compiler.
>
> There may be an argument for bootstrapping being repeatable rather
> than something done just once in a hacky way in private. See Debian's
> "rebootstrap" (though it's a different kind of bootstrapping).
+1
Rune