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Re: Progress on GCC plugins ?
> > I don't follow. If you're developing an optimizer, you need to do the
> > bootstrap to test the optimizer no matter how it connects to the rest
> > of the compiler. All you save is that you do a smaller link, but that
> > time is measured in seconds on modern machines.
>
> No, you don't. All you need is an existing GCC binary installed
> somewhere in your path that accepts -fplugin=mypass.so. All you compile
> is your pass, you don't need to even build GCC.
No, I mean for *testing* you need to do a bootstrap. I'm not talking
about the minimum actually needed to build.