parse.c build failure from gcc-head on Alpha.

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Thu Mar 7 16:36:00 GMT 2002


On Mar  7, 2002, George France <france@handhelds.org> wrote:

> Java builds with egcs-2.91.66 and gcc-3.0.4, but when I attempt to build Java 
> with gcc-2.95.3 on the alpha architecture, the build gets stuck in an 
> infinate loop.  

Right.  That's just one more reason to always use make bootstrap to
build native compilers.  Only the C front-end is supposed to build
properly with any random compiler, and even then, it's built without
optimization for stage1 of the bootstrap.

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