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Re: Re Re: Compiling The Damn Thing
- To: IIIDCG at aol dot com
- Subject: Re: Re Re: Compiling The Damn Thing
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 11 Oct 2000 15:49:41 -0200
- Cc: franks at rivo dot wag-ur dot nl, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <8.b55658d.2715171e@aol.com>
On Oct 10, 2000, IIIDCG@aol.com wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is a cross-compiler?
It's a compiler that generates code that will run on a different
architecture or operating system. Think of a compiler running on
GNU/Linux/alpha that will generate programs to run on, say,
MS-Windows/x86.
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