Hi, Brandon Knitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The VERY first C compiler was probably written in Assembly, or Pascal, or >> something... If we were really paranoid, we'd keep the source for that >> around. And the PDP/8 it ran on ;-) (Brian Kernighan has a great speech on >> this topic, btw: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/) > > I'm not paranoid, I'm trying to understand *exactly* how Mono was written. > Although, if it was written in Assembly I'm going to run in fear! ;-) > >> Mono, the runtime wasn't written in C#, was it? If so, is it reasonable >> to expect to boot-strap mono something like this? >> >> 1) build MCS using .NET on Windows >> 2) build the runtime >> 3) use the output of 2) to run the output of 1) to self-compile > > Yeah, that would be fine. I can't download blackbox binary to compile Mono and > do a full security review. I'd like to see more core of core, and build it from > there. So, you're willing to download a blackbox compiler from Microsoft ??? - Hari _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
