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Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)

From: Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, paul at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:03:04 +0100
Subject: Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
References: <10601161743.AA12121@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <20060116173830.GA7055@nevyn.them.org>

On 2006-01-16, at 18:38, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:


As a heavy debugger of cross compilers I strongly disagree with this
sentiment.  Host dependencies of any sort are a bug.


Amen to that. Independence from the host is paramount to
guarantee *reproducibility* of results over any on trivial time span.
And that's something highly prised in the embedded development world.

References:
- Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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