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From: David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>
To: NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Request for Comments] Using Rust libraries in the Rust frontend
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:25:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZ=zj60yc_DiE-64wUhFEgxEbD5e2sz_vUxm1LKu+m682p=Mw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1jjLtNSJN1CQ2G79XQBcEe2BcAn-bk1H=19MwPZkDr7uRnoQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 3:40 PM NightStrike via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 11:27 Iain Sandoe <iain@sandoe.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > E.g. with Ada it is possible to port to a new platform by first building a
> > cross-compiler and then to use that cross-compiler to build a “native
> > cross” (build != host == target) to provide an initial compiler on the
> > target platform.
> >
>
> And that Ada solution is awful for nontraditional systems. Ditto for D.

Why? And what solution would you suggest for compilers written in part
in their own languages? How do you get the first C compiler on the
platform without building a cross-compiler?

-- 
The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding
a particular section, read it again and again and again . . . Sit up
straight. Eat your vegetables. Do not mumble. -- _Pascal_, ISO 7185
(1991)

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-26 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-22 17:30 Arthur Cohen
2024-01-23  7:23 ` Richard Biener
2024-01-25 15:03   ` Arthur Cohen
2024-01-25 15:55     ` connor horman
2024-01-26  9:30       ` Arthur Cohen
2024-01-25 16:26     ` Iain Sandoe
2024-01-26  9:28       ` Arthur Cohen
2024-01-26 21:39       ` NightStrike
2024-01-26 23:25         ` David Starner [this message]
2024-01-25 18:19     ` Richard Biener
2024-01-26  9:24       ` Arthur Cohen
2024-01-26 21:41 ` NightStrike

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