Re: cross-compilers
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@rising.com.au> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 02:15:47PM -0000, Ulf Fredriksson wrote:
> > 'not always reliable'... In what way?
>
> Incorrect code generation I assume. If I recall correctly,
> gcc sometimes makes some assumptions about the target environment
> based on the host compilation environment, so some things get
> generated incorrectly.
That's what I call 'very stupid' (major understatement warning... :)
> > 'compiling 64 bit Alpha code'... True enough, but that doesn't meen we can't
> > distribute cross-compilers that _do_ work, is there?
>
> No, assuming that we can verify them to be 100% reliable.
Hmmm... And how would one do that?
> There is a gcc-m68k package in binary-i386 anyway.
That's good, I didn't know that...
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