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Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Subject: Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 14 Nov 2000 15:54:01 -0200
- Cc: hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <10011141630.AA16432@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Nov 14, 2000, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:
> Then why not have a *new* target with the *new* (restart-in-middle)
> functionality instead of changing the "bootstrap" target? The name
> "bootstrap-restart" comes to mind. :-)
> That's my current thinking as well.
My expectation from `bootstrap-restart' is that it would start
bootstrap from stratch, not proceed from where it stopped last time.
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