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by FedRegister 4655 days ago
If a new architecture was developed you could bring up the whole stack by cross-{assembling,compiling} from an already supported target. By doing so you could test the output using a simulator (or actual hardware) and then when the assembler/compiler is stable enough you could then cross-assemble/compile the assembler/compiler and then be self-hosting on the new architecture.