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   alexfrunews@gmail.com to ERSHC   
   Re: Self compiling compiler   
   31 Mar 16 12:27:26   
   
   On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 7:47:59 AM UTC-7, ERSHC wrote:   
   > I'd like to teach an undergraduate class based on the Thompson hack   
   > (see Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture). I don't want to write a   
   > "whole" compiler, so need a compiler that can compile itself,   
   > preferably one that runs under Linux and is reasonably small.   
      
   Per a Reddit commenter, this very task has been done with my compiler:   
   https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC   
   Alex   
      
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