On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 08:15 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a big fan of Zack's "over-my-dead-body" motto when it comes to ditching > bootstrap with non-GCC compilers. :-) It turns out that bootstrap is again > broken on mainline for them (at least Sun CC) and that the problem is another > instance of PR bootstrap/18058. Even though I don't mess with HP-UX anymore (and boy I'm a happier man for that!), I'm still a supporter of the ability to bootstrap with non-GCC compilers.
> Given that the problem has already showed up at least twice and that there is > a straightforward way to mimic it with GCC, I'm proposing to be proactive and > add -fkeep-inline-functions to CFLAGS for stage1 of an --enable-bootstrap > build if the bootstrap compiler is a version of GCC that supports it. More > generally, if other bootstrap with non-GCC compilers issues pop up, I think > we should strive to emulate them with GCC. Seems quite reasonable to me. jeff
