That’s normally what this means, yes, with a few more intermediate steps. There’s only one bootstrap chain like this that I know of[1,2,3], maintained by Jeremi

That’s normally what this means, yes, with a few more intermediate steps. There’s only one bootstrap chain like this that I know of[1,2,3], maintained by Jeremiah Orians and the Guix project; judging from the reference to 180 bytes, that’s what the distro GP describes is using as well. > This is a set of manually created hex programs in a Cthulhu Path to madness fashion. Which only have the goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less. [1] 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-... [2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ [3] https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds