On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Diego Novillo wrote: > === Approach: Move GTY to cc1plus. > > Instead of a separate weak parser, we would make cc1plus > understand GTY attributes. The compiler would emit IL in the > object files instead of generating source. > > This solution would require a first boot stage that did not > support PCH, because we cannot rely on the seed compiler > supporting GTY. We would probably need to use the Boehm > collector during the first stage as well. > > Because the first stage would be fundamentally different from the > second stage, we may need to add an additional pass for correct > object file comparisons.
It sounds like this would, for cross-compilers, require a native GTY-savvy g++? Please no. brgds, H-P
