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Re: cross-compilers



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.


hamish
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