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Re:Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself by mizzao on Sunday December 08, 2024 @06:17PM (#42361584)
In my question above, both compilers are 30cc, except one of the 30cc's was compiled by gcc and the other self-hosted.
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Re:Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself by actionfromafar on Monday December 09, 2024 @11:38AM (#42367733)
Ah, sorry. In that case, my guess is, probably yes. The outputs of both of these are probably the same. But not for certain - see:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

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