[distcc] using distcc to speed up gcc bootstraps
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Sun Aug 25 21:49:01 GMT 2002
On Aug 25, 2002, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya.co.uk> wrote:
> Of course, but that doesn't prevent you adding it for the first line
> of the original file now, does it? And it would still be backwards
> compatible.
I don't see how introducing a change that was not forewarned in older
docs be regarded as backward-compatible. Any other program that
claimed to support the old GCC preprocessed output could legally throw
the towel when seeing that.
> This is another case where I don't think we can reasonably expect
> to do as well with preprocessed files as with original files. Original
> files should be easy to get right. We can only get debug info for
> macros for .i files with -dD anyway.
Perhaps -ggdb should imply -dD, now that we can emit debugging info
about macros?
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