R: Status and rationale for toplevel bootstrap (was Re: Example of debugging GCC with toplevel bootstrap)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Marcin Dalecki <martin@dalecki.de> writes:

| Testing the resulting compiler has already a name:
| 
| make test

That does not test the compiler on building the runtime.  
There are a number of times where people reported runtime buik
failures after front-end changes.  So, I don't think your statement is
accurate. 

-- Gaby