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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

|     Though it makes me wonder why people did not replicate the design for 
|     C++, Fortran (even old g77) and Java?
| 
| I suspect it's because of the different role of the run-time library between
| Ada and those languages.

Could you elaborate?

-- Gaby