Cross Compiler and Bootstrapping are _______

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What is the difference between Cross Compiler and Bootstrapping ?

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somebody tell this:(

Answer 1

A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running. For example, a compiler that runs on a windows  but generates code that runs on Android is a cross compiler.

bootstrapping is the process of writing a compiler in the source prog. lang.that it intends to compile the programs in the source language.

If one needs to obtain a compiler for language X (which is written in language X), there is the issue of how the first compiler can be written (Chicken and Egg problem ). 

• Implementing an interpretor or compiler for language X in language Y. Niklaus Wirth reported that he wrote the first Pascal compiler in Fortran

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and that bootstarpping is done where part of the program is compiled in low level language and then the actual compiling starts