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I guess on the long term the only flexible and speedup workaround would be a compiler-compiler solution instead of reflection.
Profiling the CDK atom typer Egon Willighagen 2008
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The suggestion was -- and I think it is the only correct one -- that the compiler used to compile the compiler-compiler does not need to be compiled itself.
LXer Linux News Jonathan Corbet 2010
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The suggestion was -- and I think it is the only correct one -- that the compiler used to compile the compiler-compiler does not need to be compiled itself.
LXer Linux News 2010
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Indeed, looking carefully at his work it seems his proofs specifically require 1 compiler-compiler that can be absolutely trusted to compile the general compiler correctly, as the starting point of the process.
LXer Linux News 2010
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See my other comment about how viruses have advanced from Thompson's original attack, meaning that a subverted original compiler-compiler could surely infect all other binaries ever touched by that code through, say, ELF infections and hooking library calls.
LXer Linux News 2010
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The suggestion was -- and I think it is the only correct one -- that the compiler used to compile the compiler-compiler does not need to be compiled itself.
LXer Linux News Jonathan Corbet 2010
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Indeed, looking carefully at his work it seems his proofs specifically require 1 compiler-compiler that can be absolutely trusted to compile the general compiler correctly, as the starting point of the process.
LXer Linux News Jonathan Corbet 2010
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I saw the caveat in the thesis about the trusted compiler-compiler only needing to be trusted to compile the 1st full compiler.
LXer Linux News Jonathan Corbet 2010
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See my other comment about how viruses have advanced from Thompson's original attack, meaning that a subverted original compiler-compiler could surely infect all other binaries ever touched by that code through, say, ELF infections and hooking library calls.
LXer Linux News Jonathan Corbet 2010
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I saw the caveat in the thesis about the trusted compiler-compiler only needing to be trusted to compile the 1st full compiler.
LXer Linux News 2010
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