[RFC] type safe trees

[Mike Stump]

On Friday, June 25, 2004, at 08:04  AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I don't see the cross-compiling issue as relevant.  *At some point*, if
> you are building a system meant for development, you have to take the
> bootstrap step and when you do, any complexity will make things more
> difficult.

Yes, but not _before_ hello world.  Not _before_ a dejagnu run.  Not 
before make works, not before as and ld work.  Not before sh works, not 
before the filesystem and kernel works.

I find tracking down C bootstrap bugs way easier than my kernel doesn't 
come up yet bugs.  C++ is harder, this is true, but only about 5% more 
work than C.

People really don't host on new systems, until it works well.  Well 
enough to trust cvs, well enough to trust emacs, well enough for the 
kernel to stay up.