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I was piqued by this, so I went on read Ken Thompson's original article. I am amazed by it. It's a quite surprising application of quine. Don't worry, it doesn't give me a feeling of existential crisis as I still have faith on the beloved fellow compiler workers.
Read about it in https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210 .