[rescue] Anal-Retentiveness and Source Code

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Feb 7 21:26:28 CST 2002


On February 7, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> I'm impressed that GCC keeps rebuilding itself recursively until it's
> "happy" with the result.  At least, I thought it -used- to.  It seems to
> be hard-coded to two or three trials now.  At least parallel compilation
> of GCC works reliably now.

  Uhh...it has never done that.  There was the "make stage2" and "make
stage3" binsess, and "make compare" but that was it.  This dates back
to the first release of GCC that I used, which was 1.38.

    -Dave

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