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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: martin at dalecki dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 06 13:22:25 EST
- Subject: Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
> As a heavy debugger of cross compilers I strongly disagree with this
> sentiment. Host dependencies of any sort are a bug.
Amen to that. Independence from the host is paramount to guarantee
*reproducibility* of results over any on trivial time span. And
that's something highly prised in the embedded development world.
For the record, I also agree they are bugs (and said that). My point was
that there are indeed still such bugs and was against putting fixing them
into yet another critical path.