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by dane-pgp 3112 days ago
Earlier this year, tcc (re)gained the ability to compile gcc 4.7:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/ms...

This is an important result for activities such as Diverse Double-Compiling (a response to the Trusting Trust attack), and as part of the exciting work being done towards bootstrapping a modern Linux environment from source and a hex/assembly base:

http://bootstrappable.org/