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Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:00:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
- References: <10601161337.AA08973@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On 1/16/06, Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
> So the stage1 compiler is built as a 32-bit object, from the second
> stage on they're built as 64-bit objects.
>
> Very bad idea! I don't think we should support that.
This is the default setup you will run into on any ppc64-linux host. It's
definitely annoying that you have to workaround this in weird ways.
Richard.