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Not really. This C code is more like a binary and compiler artifact than a source code. So it won't match the standards of bootstrap.


Depending on what your goal is. If it is eliminating trusting trust attacks, yes this is no enough. But more commonly you only want to compile rustc for a platform it was never compiled on, and for that this project is definitely enough.




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