Re: cross-compilers
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@rising.com.au> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 12:39:27PM -0000, Ulf Fredriksson wrote:
> > Would there be interest to distribute some cross-compilers for i386-Linux?
> > I have cross-compilers for: 'm68k-sun', 'm68k-linux' and 'm68k-hpux'.
> > That is, I can compile code for m68k-sun on my Intel Linux machine...
>
> When I proposed this a while ago the consensus seemed to be that
> cross-compilation is not always reliable, and it's not always possible
> to verify it either way. m68k is apparently safe enough, but
> compiling 64 bit Alpha code on a 32 bit system is apparently
> particularly troublesome.
'not always reliable'... In what way?
'compiling 64 bit Alpha code'... True enough, but that doesn't meen we can't
distribute cross-compilers that _do_ work, is there?
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