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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox dot com>, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Rupert Wood <me at rupey dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:40:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- References: <200303041445.h24Ejhb15458@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <87ptp711nj.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:29:04AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Ignoring Ada for the moment, what if we only built the C front end,
> optimizers, and back end during all three stages of a bootstrap? And
> then came back to build the other front ends when we were done?
I've always been confused why the C++ frontend was rebuilt multiple times
during a bootstrap; actually assumed that it was done for some kind of odd
binutils compatability or hysterical raisins. Please, if this is possible,
let's do it. Bootstrap times will go down as a nice side-effect.
Phil
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