From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25021 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2011 14:43:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 25001 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Mar 2011 14:43:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-yx0-f175.google.com) (209.85.213.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:43:05 +0000 Received: by yxn22 with SMTP id 22so2124904yxn.20 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.4.8 with SMTP id g8mr4807189ybi.335.1300027384269; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from L070-PC ([182.156.233.125]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v15sm4594228ybk.18.2011.03.13.07.43.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:43:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <4D7CD7BE.00000B.01676@L070-PC> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:43:00 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Rohit Rehan" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Subject: C compiler Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 Sir, How com the compiler of c is written in C. I mean first we need to compile the source to get object but if we don't have a compiler to compile C source how can we write a compiler in C. I am totally confused please help me. Yours Faithfully Rohit Rehan