After of reading an article seen in HN Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and
the Self-referencing C Compiler
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355978)
I'm worried if that issue could happens in the Rust compiler.
Does Rust compiler is bootstrapped?
The Rust team is aware of this possibility, and is guarding against it
by keeping a log of checksums and source git revisions for the various
versions of the compiler, so that compilers downloaded from the net
can be checked, and we could, if something dodgy is found, back-track
to a known trusted
Hi,
TR;DR: the actual proposal is at the end of this email.
Rust today has good support for UTF-8 which new content definitely
should use, but many systems still have to deal with legacy content that
uses other character encodings. There are several projects around to
implement more
On 09/10/2013 12:01 AM, John Mija wrote:
After of reading an article seen in HN Strange Loops: Ken Thompson
and the Self-referencing C Compiler
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355978)
Every month or so I waste time imagining how to add an easter egg based
on this idea, but it would
Given the degrading effect this would have on anyone's faith in the compiler,
you could also call this Reflections on Rusting Trust.
-Kevin
On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.com wrote:
On 09/10/2013 12:01 AM, John Mija wrote:
After of reading an article seen in HN
