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

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Kean Johnston <jkj at sco dot com>
Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>,Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:47:08 -0700
Subject: Re: RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCC projects question)
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> <40AAC3B6.9030208@sco.com>

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:17:26PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > Has anybody considered dropping the requirement of
> > being able to bootstrap from any C89 compiler?
> I hope to goodness not!

Since apparently we'd have to kill several major developers first :-),
I don't think you need to worry.  It's not going to happen.

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

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