sag to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml • edit-25 months agoAnyone here use assembly?lemm.eeimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up11.12Kcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
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minus-square@wewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish15•edit-25 months agoOnly the most very basic compilers. C compilers are in C mainly.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-25 months agoNot the first C compiler obviously. According to this Stack Overflow post, BCPL* begat B, which begat C. Language self-hosting is pretty fascinating. *Perhaps BCPL was originally written in assembly; I’m not certain: https://github.com/SergeGris/BCPL-compiler
Only the most very basic compilers. C compilers are in C mainly.
Not the first C compiler obviously. According to this Stack Overflow post, BCPL* begat B, which begat C. Language self-hosting is pretty fascinating.
*Perhaps BCPL was originally written in assembly; I’m not certain: https://github.com/SergeGris/BCPL-compiler
Talking about bootstrap here?
Indeed
And that’s how you get the Thompson hack