On 6/7/06, Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFAIK, the only thing that you need to compile twice is GCC. And you don't even really need to do that twice. The second pass will may pass on new optimizations that will make it more efficient, but the code it outputs will be exactly the same.
You are correct that gcc's output will be the same, but you don't need to merge it twice because gcc uses itself to build itself. It uses a 3-stage bootstrap, where it uses the system compiler to build an initial version of itself, then uses that version to rebuild itself. Then for good measure, it then uses that version to build the final version of itself. The final result is completely independant of the original compiler. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
