# Clang Successfully Self-Hosts

<http://blog.llvm.org/2010/02/clang-successfully-self-hosts.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Doug Gregor of the LLVM project:



  We built all of LLVM and Clang with Clang (over 550k lines of C++
  code). The resulting binaries passed all of Clang and LLVM’s
  regression test suites, and the Clang-built Clang could then build
  all of LLVM and Clang again. The third-stage Clang was also
  fully-functional, completing the bootstrap.



Is there any other type of project that offers the same potential for recursive satisfaction as a compiler that can compile itself? It’s a singular milestone for LLVM.



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