> On Tue, 27 May 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > I have seen the "bootstraps are harder" argument before, and I'm not
> > sure I buy it.
> > 
> > 1) If you are trying to port NetBSD to a platform there must
> > be some version of GCC that works on it.
> 
> Why `must' there be?

Certainly, initial development of some ports (e.g. NetBSD/alpha) was
done with the native (non-gcc) compiler...


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