> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:25:54PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> At Cygnus, in the early and mid- 90s, we did this routinely, starting
>> with the native compilers shipped with various Unix variants.  As Unix
>> variants generally no longer come with a free (as in beer) compiler
>> other than gcc, this is harder to test today.  Still, not too hard:
>> you would just start with some other free compiler.
>

I generally bootstrap with a Sun Studio compiler on Solaris and then
bootstrap again with whatever *that* resulted in.

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Dennis Clarke

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