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Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
- From: "E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:27:57 -0600
- Subject: Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
On 13 Jul 2004 at 23:31, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > Of all the times you've ported gcc to a new platform, what percentage of the
> > time would it have been harder to cross than to bring up on the target system?
> > What were some of the issues that made it hard?
>
> As I think I made clear from my Ada analogy, I basically agree with
> your (Mike Stump's) viewpoint. An answer to the question is that if
> you are completely familiar with cross compiling, it's easy to do,
> but we do have the impression that due to lack of documentation and
> some inherent complexity, fewer people can successfully negotiate
> a cross compile than can deal with a native build.
Witness the development of Dan Kegel's crosstool script (over on the CrossGCC
list) just to get a handle on all the complexity and lack of documentation.