[LLVMdev] Size and performance figures for LLVM?

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am Donnerstag, den 15.05.2008, 13:44 -0700 schrieb Bill Wendling:
> >> If you're
> >> cross-compiling, I don't think you can do a bootstrap.
> >
> > Oh. What would be the problems with that
> >
> For llvm-gcc, the bootstrapping takes the compiler it built and tries
> to rebuild the compiler using those executables.

That's the crucial step in a bootstrap does, right :-)

>  If you're building
> for another target, the compiler you built won't run on your system.

Ah, right. I wasn't thinking far enough and too focused on my personal
situation (an amd64 machine that can run i686 code natively).

Regards,
Jo