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

[Richard Guenther]

On 1/16/06, Richard Kenner <kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> 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.

This is the default setup you will run into on any ppc64-linux host.  It's
definitely annoying that you have to workaround this in weird ways.

Richard.