How to compile a C Compiler

During developing of c language, they need to develop compiler for it,
c compiler itself is written in c ok...
then how did they compiled c compiler.....???????

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jbode

  • Sep 16th, 2011
 

You might be interested in the following link:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html

where Dennis Ritchie describes the development of the C programming language. It's not stated explicitly in the essay, but I'm pretty sure the first few iterations of Ritchie's compiler were written in assembler.

That's typical when developing a new programming language; the initial compiler or interpreter is written in a different language.

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