On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Paul Louden wrote:

>> Unfortunately, that is not entirely true. We use gcc to parse the
>> features.txt file, so it is necessary to have a compiler installed.

> Being a text file, couldn't any of a number of things, in theory, parse it
> as well?

It also needs access to the source tree to be able to read the defines for the
targets so that the correct phrases are used in the output.

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