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diff --git a/notes.org b/notes.org index 17550802dc15..1208b2fed480 100644 --- a/notes.org +++ b/notes.org @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ that is defined via an ANSI standard that compiler implementations normally actually follow! + CL has several ecosystem components that focus on making + abstracting away implementation-specific calls and if a self-hosted + compiler is written in CL using those components it can be + cross-bootstrapped. + ** Python * A note on runtimes @@ -53,4 +58,17 @@ to compile itself. Common examples: - - gcc builds with gcc + - C/C++ compilers needed to build C/C++ compilers: + + GCC 4.7 was the last version of GCC that could be built with a + standard C-compiler, nowadays it is mostly written in C++. + + Certain versions of GCC can be built with LLVM/Clang. + + Clang/LLVM can be compiled by itself and also GCC. + + - Rust was originally written in OCAML but moved to being + self-hosted in 2011. Currently rustc-releases are always built + with a copy of the previous release. + + It's relatively new so we can build the chain all the way. |