Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:14:03PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> If a contributor only has one platform, it would be OK to test on that
> platform and two embedded targets with simulators.  Most 
> optimiser bugs would be caught by, say, i386-linux bootstrap,
> i386-linux cross to powerpc-eabisim, i386-linux cross to mips64el-elf.

We have no good documentation on how to build a cross-compiler.  And while
I've never checked out the sim code or docs, I've only seen it mentioned on
the lists maybe three times.  I know that the regression tester includes a
PowerPC cross-compile and simulator, but J. Random Contributor won't have the
faintest clue how to do any of this without some pointers on the web pages.


Phil

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