Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Thomas Goorden Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Self compiling compiler Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:50:56 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 11 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <16-03-015@comp.compilers> References: <16-03-013@comp.compilers> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Injection-Info: miucha.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="63787"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: tools Posted-Date: 31 Mar 2016 12:35:39 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1687 Self-compiling compilers are pretty common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers) If it's C you're after, TCC is intentionally small: http://bellard.org/tcc/ Good luck! On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:54 AM, ERSHC wrote: > Can anyone point me to something more appropriate than gcc (which is far > from small)?