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Retr0spectrum on Feb 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't remove the $(nop) command below

Is it possible to bootstrap from a compiler compiled from C, or another language? Or is there another way to ensure there aren't any sneaky compiler backdoors?

steveklabnik on Feb 16, 2017 | [–]

You could go back to the OCaml compiler. It would take about 1000 builds, each taking 3 or 4 hours.

Someone is working on an alternate compiler so we could try DDC, we'll see.

Manishearth on Feb 16, 2017 | [–]

Sneaky backdoors already exist!

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-...

(Of course, that's a proof of concept and not actually in the released binaries :P )

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