From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RsMby-0002pq-Q2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:55:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0A5EE0693; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2405E058F for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB931DEC20 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h09tyNnMRr+y for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:26:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B46DEC0D for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:54:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-4.5.3-r1 fails to compile with "internal compiler error" Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:54:33 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.1-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_pEHKPPvx+4taEpN" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201312254.33339.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: daea90d3-c739-4b4f-8363-5e907e5f34bd X-Archives-Hash: 74ec6bb5425a9a219355dc87f8a10e7b --Boundary-01=_pEHKPPvx+4taEpN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tuesday 31 January 2012 21:37:34 walt wrote: > The gcc package actually compiles gcc twice, once with your existing > compiler and again with the new compiler itself (at least it worked that > way in the old days). I believe it's three times now: the first time with the old compiler, then with the new one, then again with the second new one. Then the last two are compared; they should be the same. I forget where I read that though. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 --Boundary-01=_pEHKPPvx+4taEpN Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Tuesday 31 January 2012 21:37:34 walt wrote:

 

> The gcc package actually compiles gcc twice, once with your existing

> compiler and again with the new compiler itself (at least it worked that

> way in the old days).

 

I believe it's three times now: the first time with the old compiler, then with the new one, then again with the second new one. Then the last two are compared; they should be the same.

 

I forget where I read that though.

 

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Rgds

Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

 

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