Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

As gcc is so fundamental during bootstraping, I also agree that introducing a dep on python 3 is likely raise problems on many platforms.

I am completely ignorant as to the gcc build process but is it possible for `optionlist` to be pre-computed and perhaps even included in the release tarballs? Is the .opt format so complicated that a small c/c++ parser couldn't be included as part of the build?