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Insert obligatory ref to "on trusting trust" what is the compiler doing? Has the pre-processor been vetted? This is looking more and more like hardware solutio

• yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  1. I don't see why you need to solve Trusting Trust to make libc and the shell more robust. 2. If we are worried about Trusting Trust, then Rust is worse; at least C has the wide range of compilers needed for diverse double-compiling and as of https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-... we arguably have a working solution. Rust only has a single compiler, and that compiler is used to build itself, making it the poster child for Trusting Trust targets.
  • steveklabnik 2y ago
    Rust has a second compiler, mrustc, written in C++ and that is able to bit-reproduce rustc. This has been the case for a few years now.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
      Oh, excellent; I didn't realize that was capable of building rustc. In that case, I'm wrong and Rust is just as good as C.