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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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