On Feb 28, 2013 3:02 PM, "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:
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> On 2/28/13 1:45 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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>> Once HEAD is compiled by the previous release (or system D compiler), it
>> might be a good practice for HEAD to compile itself too. Then this
>> compiler built by HEAD will then build the library.
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>
> Do you think there's a risk that bootstrapping causes trouble for gdc?
>
> Andrei

No more a risk than bootstrapping for dmd.  However my main concern is that I'd rather see this happen at a time when we port to more architectures other than x86 and 64bit. Leaving the cross-compiler step as a non-issue as there is already a suitable D compiler on the targeted system.

Regards
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Iain Buclaw

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