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Re: Adding zlib to GCC



  Perhaps I just don't see the problem.

  . If I develop something in the Fortran Frontend, I build with
    --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,f77
  . If I'd would ever get the time to work on the backend, and I'd
    have a Fortran code example to work with, I would also build with
    --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,f77
  . Then, after development is complete, I would make one full build
    plus make -k check and submit the patch + test results to gcc-patches.
  . Subsequently, I would apply the patch.

Sure.  But what if the back-end is broken, and won't be fixed for
quite some time?  What if the boostrap in the last stage fails because
of a change to a machine description file?

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