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Re: Adding zlib to GCC
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I wrote:
> Perhaps I just don't see the problem.
>
> . If I develop something in the Fortran Frontend, I build with
> --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,f77
> . If I'd would ever get the time to work on the backend, and I'd
> have a Fortran code example to work with, I would also build with
> --disable-checking --enable-languages=c,f77
> . Then, after development is complete, I would make one full build
> plus make -k check and submit the patch + test results to gcc-patches.
> . Subsequently, I would apply the patch.
> Sure. But what if the back-end is broken, and won't be fixed for
> quite some time? What if the boostrap in the last stage fails because
> of a change to a machine description file?
Hmmmm, OK. I've never had the opportunity to test my patience when
*all* backends for the machines I have here (m68k, i686 and Alpha) were
simultaneously broken.
I'm going to phase out the m68k (too slow), but am thinking of buying a
G4 laptop if Apple has the balls to make one (hmmmm, a *big-endian*
64-bit target with vector arithmetic, yummy).
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