A minimal C compiler in x86 assembly

Re:A minimal C compiler in x86 assembly by loudmax on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:32AM (#31248080)

The Goals section from the projects main page are pretty interesting: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

  This is a set of manually created hex programs in a Cthulhu Path to madness fashion. Which only have the goal 
  of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement 
  of a single 1 KByte binary or less.

  Additionally, all code must be able to be understood by 70% of the population of programmers. If the code can 
  not be understood by that volume, it needs to be altered until it satisfies the above requirement.

Very cool project, but I guess I won't hold out for compiling a working web browser from this project.

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Re:A minimal C compiler in x86 assembly by adrian_b on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:29AM (#31248760)

With a working gcc, you should be able to compile all that is needed to build Chromium and Firefox.

There are a few programming languages that cannot be bootstrapped from a C or C++ compiler, so you need a binary executable of a previous compiler version for that language, but I do not think that Chromium uses any of those.

The bootstrapping of Rust is complex, but AFAIK it is possible using mrustc. Then you should be able to also compile Firefox.

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