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Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: what should bootstrap *really* do?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 00 13:53:12 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
End users don't change something often. And, if they do it too late,
they'll sure get a compare failure.
Well if they're not changing anything, what are they doing to recover
from the failure?
This is my problem: if somebody runs a bootstrap and it fails, they are
going to be tempted to change something. So I agree that end users don't
change something often, but it's precisely when they will be restarting
bootstraps that they do!