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Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCC projects question)

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:01:14 -0700
Subject: Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCC projects question)
References: <1084760724.3437.14.camel@penguin> <40A8854D.90803@gnu.org> <87ad072cn6.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> <40A90738.5060700@gnu.org> <8765au3l8y.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> <40AA759E.2030501@develer.com>

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:44:14PM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Has anybody considered dropping the requirement of
> being able to bootstrap from any C89 compiler?

I'd be against it.  C89 should give us enough flexibility, and
dropping the requirement doesn't buy us nearly as much as dropping
K&R did.

In any case, what benefits are there to dropping the C89 requirement?

Follow-Ups:
- Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: BeginnerGCC projects question)
  - From: Bernardo Innocenti

References:
- Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Mark G. Adams
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Paolo Bonzini
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Paolo Bonzini
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCCprojects question)
  - From: Bernardo Innocenti

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