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by frumplestlatz 236 days ago
How are you bootstrapping a modern C compiler without an existing C/C++ compiler and linker?
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lrvick 236 days ago
From 180 bytes of human readable machine code all the way up.

https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/packages/...

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degamad 236 days ago
In assembly, like stage0 does: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
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lrvick 236 days ago
Technically it is raw x86 machine code in hexadecimal, a scheme called "hex0"
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