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Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:06:23 +0100
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>,Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Phil Edwards wrote:-
> 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.
FWIW I'm a J. Random Contributor.
Neil.