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Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: BeginnerGCC projects question)

From: Kean Johnston <jkj at sco dot com>
To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:17:26 -0700
Subject: Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: BeginnerGCC projects question)
Organization: The SCO Group
References: <1084760724.3437.14.camel@penguin> <40A8854D.90803@gnu.org> <87ad072cn6.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> <40A90738.5060700@gnu.org> <8765au3l8y.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com> <40AA759E.2030501@develer.com>

Has anybody considered dropping the requirement of
being able to bootstrap from any C89 compiler?

I hope to goodness not!

This requirement was reasonable in the infancy of
GCC, when it wasn't yet the most popular C compiler.

On some platforms it is still *NOT* the most popular
C compiler. I maintain two such platforms, and I would
be very upset to see the ability to bootstrap with the
native cc go away.

Kean

Follow-Ups:
- Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCC projects question)
  - From: Joe Buck

References:
- Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Mark G. Adams
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Paolo Bonzini
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Paolo Bonzini
- Re: Beginner GCC projects question
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCCprojects question)
  - From: Bernardo Innocenti

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