Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:30:19 -0400
> From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
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> 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.

Can you suggest where such pointers should go?  Perhaps even submit a
patch?  I have a description of how to do it, but can't see anywhere
obvious in the GCC pages to put a reference to it.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>