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cperciva
on Feb 24, 2015
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“This change deletes the C implementations of the ...
You mean, audit a large number of independently-written Go compilers?
indians_pro
on Feb 24, 2015
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Nicely done. To be fair though, Go is just 6 years old and still evolving.
cperciva
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Exactly. Which is why I think it's important to keep the option of compiling its compiler from a language which has a large diversity of compilers.
crawshaw
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I don't believe it has been tried yet, but it seems entirely possible to use gccgo as the bootstrap compiler.
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