On 23 June 2007 22:53, Brooks Moses wrote: > > Indeed. It would be interesting to confirm whether or not a copy of gcc > bootstrapped with a non-gcc compiler matched byte-for-byte with a copy > of gcc bootstrapped from gcc. Not so much to look for intentional > things like this, but to see whether the bootstrapping actually does > achieve its goal of obtaining a result that's independent of the > bootstrapping compiler. Has anyone actually tried it?
That's kinda the whole point of bootstrapping :) any variation is in the stage1 compiler only, modulo such bad bugs in the native compiler that the stage1 gcc miscompiles stage2 gcc. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....