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> It seems like you'd need to trust a C compiler anyway, but I guess the idea is that there are a lot of small C compiler designs that are fairly easy to port?

> It seems like you'd need to trust a C compiler anyway, but I guess the idea is that there are a lot of small C compiler designs that are fairly easy to port? Sorry but TFA explains it very well how to go from nothing to TinyCC. The author's effort now is to go from TinyCC to Rust.

dathery 2y ago
Right, but I was trying to understand the author's motivation, and this was me handwaving about if it could be about compiler trust. The article discusses bootstrapping but not explicitly why the author cares—is it just a fun exercise (they do mention fascination)? Are they using an obscure architecture where there is no OCaml compiler and so they need the short bootstrap chain? _Is_ it about compiler trust? (Again since it can come off wrong in text, this was just pure curiosity about the project, not dismissiveness.)