RFC: Dropping the non-GCC bootstrap requirement (Was: Beginner GCC projects question)

Joe Buck Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM
Wed May 19 16:47:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:17:26PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > Has anybody considered dropping the requirement of
> > being able to bootstrap from any C89 compiler?
> I hope to goodness not!

Since apparently we'd have to kill several major developers first :-),
I don't think you need to worry.  It's not going to happen.



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