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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Gnu C Compiler for MPW Unchained!
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.111012.4314@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 16 Dec 90 11:10:12 GMT
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Comment-To: jeffh@HyperMail.apple.com


jeffh@HyperMail.apple.com (Jeff Holcomb) writes:

>The cpp and cc1 files that make up the compiler are the third generation.  
>That is:  generation one was created by compiling the sources through MPW 
>C.  Generation two was created by compiling the sources using the 
>generation one cpp and cc1, and generation three was created by using the 
>generation two cpp and cc1.  MPWGCC is perfectly capable of compiling 
>itself (better than MPW C actually).


Call me confused, but shouldn't the 2nd and 3rd generation versions of cpp
and cc1 be byte-for-byte identical? (as would all subsequent generations)
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