Re: FYI: submitted ecj patch upstream

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > I like the idea of checking in the .class files (perhaps in the form a a 
> > jar file) and CNI headers.
>
> If we are going to do that, what about a 4 stage bootstrap or so which just
> compiles ecj to native also at the same time.

You would not need an extra stage.  Just build libgcj and ecj earlier in 
the bootstrap (in stage1 and/or stage2) so that stage3 would be built 
with the bootstrapped ecj.

As far as computational resourses needed to bootstrap go, the result 
would be similar or perhaps greater than a stage4

David Daney