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Re: [RFC] type safe trees

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: drow at false dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:17:37 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFC] type safe trees

On Friday, June 25, 2004, at 08:04 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:

I don't see the cross-compiling issue as relevant.  *At some point*, if
you are building a system meant for development, you have to take the
bootstrap step and when you do, any complexity will make things more
difficult.

Yes, but not _before_ hello world. Not _before_ a dejagnu run. Not before make works, not before as and ld work. Not before sh works, not before the filesystem and kernel works.

I find tracking down C bootstrap bugs way easier than my kernel doesn't come up yet bugs. C++ is harder, this is true, but only about 5% more work than C.

People really don't host on new systems, until it works well. Well enough to trust cvs, well enough to trust emacs, well enough for the kernel to stay up.

References:
- Re: [RFC] type safe trees
  - From: Richard Kenner

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