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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> writes:

|  > But you cannot compile *any* Ada program (even
| > an empty function) without an RTS in the path since it makes builtin
| > references to the RTS.
| 
| For what it's worth, that's the same for Java.  But the compiler is
| not written in Java so you can "bootstrap" it as part of GCC even if
| you build libjava after it.

to some extent, that is also the case for C++ -- libstdc++/libsupc++.

-- Gaby