libiberty & gcc

[Alex Buell]

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> target machine -- the machine we ultimately end up generating code for.
> host machine -- the machine which actually runs the target compiler
> build machine -- the machine which builds the target compiler

Ah, now that's clarified things somewhat. Imagine building the egcs on
your lowly little i486 to run on a DECstation generating code for your
little i486 for these big glibc2 jobs! :o) I'm now beginning to understand
how one can build a compiler binary for an unsupported platform.

Cheers,
Alex
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