Need some help

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  7, 2002, Alcino Dall Igna Junior <alcino@lncc.br> wrote:

> On 6 Feb 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> On Feb  6, 2002, Alcino Dall Igna Junior <alcino@lncc.br> wrote:
>> 
>> > IMHO is more usefull if the target and the run machine are
>> > the same :):):):))))) (just a joke, not a flame, please :))
>> 
>> Not if the target machine doesn't even run an OS (yet), for example.
>> Or how do think people port OSs to new machines? :-)

> I never get around with such a beast but I always think it
> was over emulators.

Having an emulator doesn't help if you don't have a tool to generate
code for it.  That's where cross compilers come into play.

> I think that Jan is more involved with the P4. 

These days, I think so.

> In any way, obrigado.

De nada :-)

>> Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/

> Guaraná é ótimo, mas água é mais saudável. :)))
 (Guaraná is great, but water is more healthy)

But Acqua is proprietary, while Guaraná is Free Software :-)

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