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Subject: Re: Proposal for new organization of gcc
From: hjstein () bfr ! co ! il (Harvey J ! Stein)
Date: 1998-01-22 16:09:28
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Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu> writes:
> This won't work. gcc needs cc1 in order to build libgcc.a,
>
> That's true. In fact, I think this is a show-stopper: unless we make
> it possible to compile libgcc2.c with whatever C compiler you use to
> compile GCC (not easy since it uses GCC features), we can't possibly
> support building other languages without C. We could perhaps make it
> work to compile libgcc2.c using C++, if you don't build the C
> compiler, but what if you choose to build only Fortran, Pascal or Ada?
>
> But I don't think it is terribly important to make it possible
> to build other languages without building C.
What about just supporting it when the stock compiler is gcc?
--
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il
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