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		pjmlp on Aug 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig is now self–hosted by default Yes, there are lots of optimizations that are hard in C and only possible thanks to UB abuse.

titzer on Aug 23, 2022 [–]

I feel like C screwed up cross-compilation so badly that people think it is hard for some reason. Which it obviously isn't. The Virgil compiler just includes all of its backends in builds for all of its hosts. There's nothing special about the host machine.

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