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

Marcin Dalecki martin@dalecki.de
Mon Jan 16 14:14:00 GMT 2006


On 2006-01-16, at 14:37, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     So the stage1 compiler is built as a 32-bit object, from the  
> second
>     stage on they're built as 64-bit objects.
>
> Very bad idea!  I don't think we should support that.

Yeep. That's not a bootstrap. It's cross compilation.



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