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Re: [PATCH 0/3] WIP: Go-lang
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: [PATCH 0/3] WIP: Go-lang |
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Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:37:21 +0200 |
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:17:59 -0800
Jeff Mickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> [2016-01-12 08:31]:
> > Go-1.4 is built using gccgo-4.9, and go-1.5 uses go-1.4 to build, so I'm
> > pretty confident that go-1.4 works, and since go-1.5 inherits from go-1.4
> > it should be working too.
>
> I'm a bit confused - go-1.4 is not a bootstrapped release, and requires
> a working C compiler. Exactly what go code is being built with go-1.4?
>
Reading the google group for go, it looks like go-1.5 uses go-1.4 to
bootstrap itself, and then it uses that to rebuild itself for a final copy. I
was under the impression that the go binary/compiler worked by itself and
only needed the C compiler to compile the go binary.
> And isn't anything before gcc-5 building a different go runtime than the
> standard compilers due to gccgo's lack of support for segmented
> stacks. I would not suggest running much go code with pre-gcc-5
>
> // codemac
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- [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add go-1.5., (continued)