Build successful for GCC 3.2.2 on FC4, or backward bootstrap compatibility

Avi Kivity avi@argo.co.il
Sun Dec 18 16:49:00 GMT 2005


I recently had to build gcc 3.2.2 on an FC4 box. This failed using gcc 
4.0.2 as the bootstrap compiler since gcc 3.2.2 uses no-longer-accepted 
extensions. So I built gcc 3.4.5 using 4.0.2, and used that to bootstrap 
3.2.2.

Now, if it is part of the release criteria that release N-1 must be 
buildable with release N, then it worked well. If not, I'd like to 
suggest that it be added, as it makes building older gcc releases 
possible (though perhaps lengthy).

Avi

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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