On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:25:46 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:00:35 -0600, "Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg>
>wrote:
>
>>Is GCC compiled with GCC? How would a GCC 3.0 compiled with 2.95 compare to
>>one compiled with 3.0? (If that makes any sense at all...)
>
>Of course it makes sense. This is how gcc compiles itself from source.
>First it compiles with whatever compiler you have, then it compiles
>with itself, and then it compiles with itself again. Then, if the last
>two copies match, it installs itself. This is called bootstrapping
>IIRC.

Yes thats what it seems to do, it takes two hours to build. 

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