Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:01:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: eldredge AT ap DOT net, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJ port of GCC 2.8.0?
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Christopher Croughton wrote:

> Incidentally, why do you have to rebuild gcc with itself?  Is it just
> to get the better optimisation, or is there some reason that building
> it with the old version doesn't work properly?

To get better code in GCC itself.  This includes better optimizations and 
fewer bugs (because of bugs in code generation which are corrected in the 
newer version).

Don't forget that GCC is just another program.  So compiling it with a 
(hopefully) better compiler makes it better.