[RFC] type safe trees

[Richard Kenner]

    You're seriously telling me that you'd even consider using such a
    machine as a develpoment platform?

For doing development work on the *compiler*, of course not, but it's
often all you *have* for doing development of the toolchain.

    Surely everything is going to be cross-compiled until you've got
    production hardware, a solid toolchain and a good chunk of the system
    ported.

And that's my point.  You're going to be a in a difficult environment
for quite a while.  Getting GCC bootstrapped is one of the best tests of
the compiler that exists and is an early step.

    GCC has very good support for cross compiling. IMHO this is the reason
    it can be rapidly ported to new targets.

Right.  And that's what I don't want to damage.

    Take a look at all the targets supported by gcc. I'd guess half of
    those simply aren't capable of hosting gcc. 

Sure.  But I'm talking about those that *are*.  I'm talking about a new
machines, meant to be marketting as a general development.  Indeed nothing
I'm saying applies to the embedded environment: that environment isn't
influenced at all by what language the compiler uses.