Re: Bootstraping compilers ?

On 2008-04-18, Roland Lei_a <roland.leissa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A compiler which can compile itself is definitely a nice feature, but
> this is surely not a must have. There are compilers out there which
> don't even understand their source language, i.e. a compiler for
> languages Foo and Bar but the compiler itself is written in C.
>
> But I would agree that a compiler written in Foo and understands Foo
> should be able to compile itself. This is a really nice test.

Depends on the completeness of the sup****t of "Foo" of
course. Specially with ever widening scope of language specifications
of modern languages this is often harder than one would expect.

Similarly the use of non standard extensions in the compiler.