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Rust can selfbootstrap by compiling the rust code for the compiler.
> Rust can selfbootstrap by compiling the rust code for the compiler. Compiling the rust code for the compiler how ? The whole point is that we don't have rustc.
This is a made up restriction.
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> Rust can selfbootstrap by compiling the rust code for the compiler. Compiling the rust code for the compiler how ? The whole point is that we don't have rustc.
>The whole point is that we don't have rustc. This is a made up restriction.
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> Rust can selfbootstrap by compiling the rust code for the compiler. Compiling the rust code for the compiler how ? The whole point is that we don't have rustc.
>The whole point is that we don't have rustc. This is a made up restriction.
Ken Thompson, "Reflections on Trusting Trust". https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210
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No it can't. Not for RISC-V/musl, so I'm sure that must be true for other platforms too.
Once you've compiled it for one platform, you've re-bootstrapped it, at which point you can use the real compiler to cross-compile for another platform.
Some time from now x86_64 will fade away, and there's a large chance rust will still be around. I know that this will probably take a long time, but it's better and easier to do it now than later.