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Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 10:35:03 EST
- Subject: Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
Well, right, those languages have front-ends written in C.
That's not the main difference, which is that for the other languages, you
can compile programs without an RTS since it's just used when the user
explicitly calls a library. But you cannot compile *any* Ada program (even
an empty function) without an RTS in the path since it makes builtin
references to the RTS.