On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:31:36 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, that could be it.  I remember it took *hours* to complete, we 
started it and went to dinner, when we came back it still wasn't done.

Jim

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