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To: Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com>
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Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end 
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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:25:00 -0000
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
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> > > > Just at this point it isn't reasonable to assume that there
> > > > are conforming (even sufficiently conforming) C++ compilers widely
> > > > available on the wide range of hosts that GCC currently supports.
> > > > There is gcc 3.2.2.
> >
> > But that doesn't support hosts that might come along in the future (or are
> > you proposing to maintain it in perpetuity?)
> 
> Well, for new hosts, we can use a cross-compiler on an established host to
> start the bootstrapping.
> That way, we need no pre-existing compiler on the new system.

*IF* you don't need proprietary tools on the target to produce your image.

R.