Jim Henderson wrote:
> Building GCC on Sun systems was fun - IIRC, it compiled itself three
> times, first time using the commercial compiler that came with the OS,
> and then two separate passes with GCC itself to optimize its own code.

Yep, the three-phase bootstrapping. I think the final step is building
itself with itself and comparing both executables, to make sure everything
worked.

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