How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 daysRui Ueyama — December 2015 I wrote a self-hosting C compiler which I named 8cc in 40 days. This is a log when I was writing it from scratch by myself in 2012. The code and its history are available at GitHub. Day 8 So I'm writing a compiler. It started working after writing about 1,000 lines of code. Here are some examples of code that work with the compiler: int a = 1; a + 2; // => 3 int a = 61;
