Optimizations when compiling the compiler.

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Thu Sep 3 22:45:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 199809030401.XAA04776@indy3.indy.net >you write:
  > Hmm, that brings to mind an additional test for the next round of egcs/pgcc
  > testing: run the testsuite with a self-compiled compiler.  That is, use the
  > release candidate to build itself, then run the testsuite against that 2nd 
  > generation of compiler binaries.
That is precisely what most of us do.

"make bootstrap" will 3-stage the compiler, then we proceed to the
"make check" step :-)

jeff



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