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Re: [gfortran,patch] bootstrap broken


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:10:03PM +0200, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> > 
> >>Feng Wang wrote:
> >>
> >>>But in http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html, GCC binary (version 2.95
> >>>or later) should be ok. Shouldn't we accept the patch?
> >>>
> >>
> >>If you're not playing any tricks, the compiler used to build the gcc/fortran/
> >>subdirectory should be the compiler in the gcc/ directory, i.e. the system
> >>compiler should never compile the files in gcc/fortran. Maybe you're using a
> >>weird setup?
> > 
> > 
> > Doesn't gfortran build as cross?  I haven't tried (I should),
> > but if it does (it should), it must be all gcc-2.95-compatible
> > code -- it probably should even be if it doesn't build as cross. ;-)
> 
> Don't we require bootstrapping for cross-compilers? In that case the frontend
> would still be built by the gcc from the same tree as the Fortran frontend.

No, in fact, I don't think we support it.

> If that's not the case, does your statement mean "gcc-compatible", or do we
> have to support other build compilers as well? The issue raised in this thread
> were variable length arrays in structures, which were supported as a gcc
> extension before, IIRC.

Historically, we've just said "sort of GCC-like and sort of recent".

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz


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