compile server status?

[Per Bothner]

Alex Hornby wrote:

> I was wondering what the status of the compile server branch was.  I 
> haven't seen anything about it on the list for a while.

Mike Stump and I are still plugging away at it.  Currently I'm working 
on compling gcc using the compile server.  I can compile all of
cpp*.c (except cppdefault.c which takes extra option) on GNU/Linux, 
using a single execution of the server, as long optimization is turned 
off.  The immediate problem with optimization is with inline function 
definitions, and how duplicate_decls clobbers old declarations.

Debugging (wih Dwarf2) seems to work.  Also, with two small test files, 
the server now generates identical assembler out as the non-server 
compiler, which is highly desirable.  This isn't the case for the larger 
cpp*.o files, and I need to understand the issue.

This isn't checked in yet.

The work on replacing location_t by fileline will also benefit the 
compile-server.
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