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Although you can end up with fun situations like the C compiler backdoor: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-dennis-ritchie-a/ http://sci
by jlees 11y ago
Although you can end up with fun situations like the C compiler backdoor: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-dennis-ritchie-a/ http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-de...
- billjings 11y agoHaven't read the article you linked to, but the Brian Kernighan talk it discusses is fantastic, one of my favorite reads in the field: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThat's ken, not bwk.
- billjings 11y agoD'oh. Thanks.
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- rsc 11y agoYou can start from the C version and move forward and check that you get the same result as starting with released Go binaries. Unless you think Ken somehow backdoored the original C compilers to backdoor every C compiler in the world to backdoor the Go compilers that came about decades later. :-)
- bmir-alum-007 11y agoSeems simpler to just backdoor the linker/library archiver, that way almost all toolchains are backdoored. ;)