Re: cross-toolchain and x86 target status
>>>>> "Nikita" == Nikita V Youshchenko <yoush@cs.msu.su> writes:
Nikita> P.S. Another interesting issue is tool naming. How should
Nikita> tools be named: i386-linux-gcc or i586-linux-gcc? And when
Nikita> comes to multilib, should 'i386-linux-gcc -m64' be the way to
Nikita> build for x86_86, or there should be separate
Nikita> x86_64-linux-gcc? And what about binutils? Btw, same issue
Nikita> exists on s390/s390x and on sparc/sparc64. Looks that a
Nikita> consistent way is to make any compiler capable to build for
Nikita> every compatable target, but to build by default for the
Nikita> target that is in it's name. E.g. i386-linux-gcc by default
Nikita> builds core for i386, i686-linux-gcc builds code optimized for
Nikita> 686, and x86_64-linux-gcc by default builds for x86_64. But
Nikita> all those are several frontends for single compiler binary in
Nikita> gcc-lib/, so 'i386-linux-gcc -m64' could be actually the same
Nikita> as 'x86_64-linux-gcc'. But I've never seen things done this
Nikita> way, so it probably is not easy, and it's not clear whether it
Nikita> is worth effort or not.
The same problem arises for ARM. gcc can target any of the ARM
processors, but fails to be multilib for them, especially wrt
big/little endian issues.
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