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by arjvik 1183 days ago
Did you build that C compiler yourself? Using what compiler? Unless you bootstrapped it from a handwritten assembler, you'll need to consider the attack outlined in Reflections on Trusting Trust
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I did but I foolishly relied on GCC before it was self-hosted now I guess I should scrap the whole thing and build by hand.
There's actually someone out there who has done some impressive work on this, believe it or not!

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/