Re: Non i386 ports.
> AFAIK, the only serious problem would be that the gcc people don't
> have much faith in cross compiles between (say) i386's and alphas.
> They believe that the optimisations (or something like that) would
> not be as good as they could be because of the different int size.
Ok, such a 32/64 bit problem could exist. But in general, between two
32 bit machines, cross compiling works *fine*.
Just keep one point in mind: A cross gcc usually doesn't know how
floating point numbers on the target machine are represented. This
means, it can't work with them itself. This comes into play with
constant folding: this produces garbage numbers (no error!). But
simple FP constants should be ok, they're just passed to the
assembler.
Roman
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