Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: ERSHC Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Self compiling compiler Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:58:18 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <16-04-003@comp.compilers> References: <16-03-013@comp.compilers> Reply-To: ershc123@nyc.rr.com Injection-Info: miucha.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="95865"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: tools Posted-Date: 03 Apr 2016 10:35:31 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:1694 On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 03:54:00 -0000 (UTC), 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. Can > anyone point me to something more appropriate than gcc (which is far > from small)? > > Thanks. Wow! Thanks to all for the suggestions. I seem to have some work cut out for me chosing among the plethora of resources.