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Re: [09/nn] Add a fixed_size_mode_pod class
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at linaro dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:26:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: [09/nn] Add a fixed_size_mode_pod class
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> There's always the possibility of building GCC 4.8 with the other compiler
> and then GCC 9+ (?) with GCC 4.8.
What an user-friendly solution...
> What's the list of other compilers people routinely use? I see various
> comments on other compilers in install.texi but those are already saying
> those cannot be used to build GCC but you need to build an older GCC first
> (like xlc or the HP compiler).
I read the opposite for XLC:
"GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping with an
earlier release of GCC is recommended."
I think that the major supported compilers are IBM, Sun/Oracle and LLVM.
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Eric Botcazou