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love software archaeology like this.

there was another article where someone bootstrapped the very first version of gcc that had the i386 backend added to it, and it turns out there was a bug in the codegen. I'll try to find it...

EDIT: Found in, infact there was a HN discussion about an article referencing the original article:

https://miyuki.github.io/2017/10/04/gcc-archaeology-1.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39901290



If you're into that kind of thing, May I strongly suggest https://virtuallyfun.com/ ? It's an absolute gold mine of amazing stuff along these lines




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