From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: A major milestone in bootstrapping Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:58:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87va7sc2jz.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87lg8sfy0u.fsf@ITSx01.pdp10.guru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv7NA-0002kX-AO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:47:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv7N5-00051x-1d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:47:28 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:52315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv7N4-00051n-LC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:47:22 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1C221DB2 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:47:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dobby (unknown [72.12.220.132]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9F57610297 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:47:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87lg8sfy0u.fsf@ITSx01.pdp10.guru> (Jeremiah's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:34:09 +0000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Jeremiah@pdp10.guru writes: > > Soon we hope to finish the MesCC bootstrap from M2-Planet and then we > will have a complete bootstrap path from 250byte hex0 all the way up to > gcc ^_^ Wow! Just Wow! I have a question though. It sounds like a bunch of this is assembly...Is assembly portable? AKA does/will this bootstrapped C only be able to run on Intel chips? I suppose that even if it did, you could cross compile it to other architectures... > > -Jeremiah Orians