On cygwin, with D. Korn's proposed patch to cygwin's (i.e., newlib's) stdio.h, I get a bootstrap failure do to comparison difference(s):
Comparing stages 2 and 3 warning: ./cc1-checksum.o differs warning: ./cc1obj-checksum.o differs warning: ./cc1objplus-checksum.o differs warning: ./cc1plus-checksum.o differs warning: ./libgcc/_chkstk.o differs Bootstrap comparison failure! ./ada/exp_aggr.o differs make[2]: *** [compare] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/branch/objdir' make[1]: *** [stage3-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/branch/objdir' make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 -- Cheers, /ChJ