Re: Self compiling compiler

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On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 9:47:59 AM UTC-5, 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)?

cfront In a Picard voice: "make it work and compile right Riker."

If you want to REALLY take this to extreme: use the February 1985 printout
PDFs http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus

The other versions are there too; but the dialect is old (the for loop
variables have different scoping, the new and delete operators are not
recognized and the libraries are not compatible if you try to use gcc
with this). There are scratch files in old versions there or elsewhere
in C and an empty scratch directory in version 3 and maybe 2 in the
archive.

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Self compiling compiler ERSHC <ershc123@nyc.rr.com> - 2016-03-31 03:54 +0000
  Re: Self compiling compiler Kaz Kylheku <545-066-4921@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-31 15:01 +0000
  Re: Self compiling compiler Thomas Goorden <thomas.goorden@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 17:50 +0200
  Re: Self compiling compiler "Nils M Holm" <nmh@t3x.org> - 2016-03-31 19:41 +0200
    Re: Self compiling compiler Kaz Kylheku <545-066-4921@kylheku.com> - 2016-04-03 10:34 -0400
      Re: Self compiling compiler Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org> - 2016-04-04 12:54 +0000
  Re: Self compiling compiler Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> - 2016-03-31 14:16 -0400
  Re: Self compiling compiler alexfrunews@gmail.com - 2016-03-31 12:27 -0700
  Re: Self compiling compiler Jens Kallup <jkallup@web.de> - 2016-03-31 21:29 +0200
  Re: Self compiling compiler ERSHC <ershc123@nyc.rr.com> - 2016-04-02 20:58 +0000
  Re: Self compiling compiler federation2005@netzero.com - 2016-05-25 16:41 -0700
    Re: Self compiling compiler federation2005@netzero.com - 2016-05-28 14:49 -0700
      Re: Self compiling compiler rockbrentwood@gmail.com - 2016-08-22 15:56 -0700

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