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more_corn
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How to Build an Evil Compiler
I’d be interested to hear if anyone has found an evil compiler in the wild.
awelm
on April 18, 2022
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Here's one on Quora. This story actually inspired me to write this blog post:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...
yccs27
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Doesn't XcodeGhost (mentioned in the first paragraph) qualify as an evil compiler?
josephcsible
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I don't think so. "Evil compiler" here doesn't just mean a compiler that's malicious; it specifically means a compiler that, if asked to compile a clean compiler, will instead compile another copy of itself. And I don't think XcodeGhost did that.
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