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cperciva on Feb 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “This change deletes the C implementations of the ...

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 on Feb 24, 2015 [–]

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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