what should bootstrap *really* do?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 14, 2000, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:

>     Then why not have a *new* target with the *new* (restart-in-middle)
>     functionality instead of changing the "bootstrap" target?  The name
>     "bootstrap-restart" comes to mind. :-)

> That's my current thinking as well.

My expectation from `bootstrap-restart' is that it would start
bootstrap from stratch, not proceed from where it stopped last time.

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