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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0


On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:17:25PM +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> How hard is it to build a compiler farm that will run on a network with
> different architectures to generate binaries for a given target
> architecture and target operating system?

It's trivially easy.  All we need is the network in question.

Simply donate some modern hardware -- one complete system per platform+OS
combination, as well as a 24/7 network connection, and some battery-backup
power supplies -- and I'll set it up for you.  The GCC testsuite requires
a long time to run, so please make sure that they have fast processors
and plenty of memory, or the automating testing won't finish until a week
after the patch being tested is checked in.

:-)

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Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in
new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance
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