> There's always the possibility of building GCC 4.8 with the other compiler > and then GCC 9+ (?) with GCC 4.8.
What an user-friendly solution... > What's the list of other compilers people routinely use? I see various > comments on other compilers in install.texi but those are already saying > those cannot be used to build GCC but you need to build an older GCC first > (like xlc or the HP compiler). I read the opposite for XLC: "GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping with an earlier release of GCC is recommended." I think that the major supported compilers are IBM, Sun/Oracle and LLVM. -- Eric Botcazou
