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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM, hjl at lucon dot org, aph at redhat dot com, aoliva at redhat dot com, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, schwab at suse dot de, pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu, pkoning at equallogic dot com, s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, matt at 3am-software dot com, cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 13:33:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:19, Robert Dewar wrote:
> >
> > Also don't forget us embedded people that are *desperately* trying to
> > do native compilations using an NFSroot with limited main memory and
> > don't have a disk in the hardware design to swap to.
>
> Why would you work in such a crippled environment?
>
One reason is that many people write open-source packages that can't be
cross compiled (there are far too many autoconf scripts around that try
to build executable test programs).
Robert, please stop trying to shoot the messenger. The problems are
real, and users often cannot 'fix' these problems themselves. Just like
they can't 'fix' the compiler bloat themselves.
R.