bootstrap on powerpc fails

[Eric Christopher]

On Nov 7, 2006, at 4:40 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:

>>>>>> Kaveh R GHAZI writes:
>
> Kaveh> I tried many years ago and Mark objected:
> Kaveh> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg00756.html
>
> Kaveh> Perhaps we could take a second look at this decision?  The  
> average system
> Kaveh> has increased in speed many times since then.  (Although  
> sometimes I feel
> Kaveh> like bootstrapping time has increased at an even greater pace  
> than chip
> Kaveh> improvements over the years. :-)
>
> 	I object.

Any reason other than the obvious "bootstrap already takes too long"?  
Andrew's suggestion seemed reasonable too.

-eric