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Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:00:34 +0100
- CC: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
> Date: 14 Nov 2000 15:54:01 -0200
> On Nov 14, 2000, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:
>
> > [No, I (H-P) wrote this, don't blame Kenner for it:]
> > Then why not have a *new* target with the *new* (restart-in-middle)
> > functionality instead of changing the "bootstrap" target? The name
> > "bootstrap-restart" comes to mind. :-)
>
> > That's my current thinking as well.
>
> My expectation from `bootstrap-restart' is that it would start
> bootstrap from stratch, not proceed from where it stopped last time.
Ok, bad name. Not a native speaker and so on.
Perhaps bootstrap-continue?
brgds, H-P