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Re: a nice try....

With a compiler you can trust

This ancient wisdom has been replaced:

Countering "Trusting Trust"

"You do have to trust a compiler, but you don't have to know beforehand which one you must trust. If you have the source code for compiler T, you can test it against compiler A. Basically, you still have to have at least one executable compiler you trust. But you don't have to know which one you should start trusting."

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