On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:52:43PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I can see how a compiler bug, that manifests as a miscompilation of the > assembler, triggers a bootstrap failure if you also build the assembler > three times, each time using the previous compiler *and* assembler.
For the record, this is non-hypothetical. It happened to me a few weeks ago - if I'd been bootstrapping in a combined tree, stage1 gcc would have miscompiled stage2 as which would have misassembled stage2 gcc. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
