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RE: old intentional gcc bug?

On 23 June 2007 22:53, Brooks Moses wrote:

> 
> Indeed.  It would be interesting to confirm whether or not a copy of gcc
> bootstrapped with a non-gcc compiler matched byte-for-byte with a copy
> of gcc bootstrapped from gcc.  Not so much to look for intentional
> things like this, but to see whether the bootstrapping actually does
> achieve its goal of obtaining a result that's independent of the
> bootstrapping compiler.  Has anyone actually tried it?

  That's kinda the whole point of bootstrapping :) any variation is in the
stage1 compiler only, modulo such bad bugs in the native compiler that the
stage1 gcc miscompiles stage2 gcc.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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