RFA: Fix other/44566

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Sun Jun 27 18:18:00 GMT 2010


Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> The model I has was that all the targets supported by the compiler are 
> essentially equal.  It would be possible to run the compiler - or other 
> components such as the assembler - with a --target= option to select a 
> particular target, and the results would be identical to those of a 
> single-target compiler for that target.

That seems to me to be a far desirable model.  It's not like building
two compilers is that hard; if we can't achieve a single compiler that
can really target two targets equally well, then why not just build two
compilers?

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