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> itself, though. (Or at least, if you can, you are probably related to
> Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth, Alan Turing, and perhaps Douglas Hofstadter
> too.)

Reminds me of a comment I saw in the Hermes distribution, something
along the lines of

"This is hand-compiled to bootstrap the compiler. Do not touch this. You
don't know what you're doing. Only Bill knows what he's doing. Bill is
God."

So yes, the other way is to hand-emulate the compiler you wrote to
figure out what it would generate. :-)

-- 
Darren New / Senior MTS & Free Radical / Invisible Worlds Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. dnew@san.rr.com
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