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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