On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 09:53:29AM +0000, Richard Miller wrote:
> > With gcc 4.8.0, the implementation of gcc is now in C++... And to
> > compile a compiler, one needs a C++ compiler...
>
> This is not an insurmountable obstacle. In fact it's the normal
> situation when retargeting any self-compiled compiler for a new
> instruction set.
>
Except that C is a great language because it is both high
level enough and low level (near machine) that a compiler written in C
without optimizations and pure integer is "easy" (less expensive) to
write from scratch. Here, the dependencies increase.
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