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Comment by msm_

2 years ago

If I remember correctly, this tiny binary is used to (reproducibly) bootstrap the next binary, which bootstraps the next binary, until eventually GCC can be compiled (and compile other software).

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Smaug123  2 years ago

The bootstrap chain is https://github.com/oriansj/stage0-posix-x86/blob/e86bf7d304b...

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