On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > > If you are building a non-C front end without bootstrapping you need at > least 2.95: > > To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where > 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing > GCC binary (version 2.95 or later) because source code for language > frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
STRICT_WARN (i.e. -pedantic) was added to all the frontends (except Ada) many years ago. So this comment about use of extensions requiring gcc-2.95 might be obsolete. I suspect you may be able to cross-build all of non-ada GCC with any ISO C compiler right now (I haven't tried it though since I don't have access to an appropriate system.) --Kaveh