Probably out of topic, but are there real examples of compiler attacks due to bootstrapping ?
I did not hear about them before reading the scifi classic Accelerando by C. Stross
Brilliant. I was going to post this but you posted it first, I read this while learning to program in C, and then looked at my compiler with extreme suspicion.
I recommend this[0] paper by Ken Thompson dated 1984 and still relevant.
[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...