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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end


Pop Sébastian <pop at gauvain dot u-strasbg dot fr> writes:

| On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:04:32AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com> writes:
| > |  You want to build GCJ, so you have 
| > | to put it into stage3.  This means that stage2 and stage3 are compiled 
| > | with different options, so they can't be compared.  In order to do a 
| > | bootstrap comparison, you need to go to stage 4. 
| > 
| > The point is that in effect, comparaison is -not- bootstrapping the
| > Java compiler.  It is testing the C compiler (optionally C++ in the
| > Java case).
| > 
| Agree.
| 
| Stage4 could build only GCJ and diff object code of GCJ stage4 against GCJ stage3.  
| This will test that stage2 G++ builds verify.cc the same way stage3 G++ builds it.
| In other words we bootstrapped G++.

Thanks for putting it in better words than I.

-- Gaby


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