Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:07:48AM -0500, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> > Chris Lattner wrote:
> > > Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > >
> > >>The other problem with this is that "Modern" "Standard" C++ has the
> > >>following problems:
> > >>1. Makes a mess out of simplifying code from the compiling when the
> > >>compiler is being miscompiled itself.
> > >
> > >
> > > Huh?
> >
> > If you really don't understand the above point 1, that's surprising.
> > Have you ever actually worked through problems in a self-compiling
> > bootstrapped compiler? Or are you just arguing language merits?
> 
> No, I just can't parse the english statement.  Can Andrew or someone else
> restate?

Sure: I believe what Andrew is saying is that when you have a failure
in the stage2 compiler, i.e. a miscompiled compiler, it becomes
substantially harder to diagnose and minimise.

Whether that's true or not I don't know.  It's plausible.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer