Cross compilers without assemblers (rant)

[Mike Stump]

On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Kelley's patch should go back in.
>
> As a compromise position, can I suggest what I suggested at the end of
> my original rant?  Always probe for assembler features in a native
> configuration.

Let end it there, as this is more trivial, and I think sufficient.  
Just put in a check to see if build == target and only to the check if 
that is true.  If it isn't skip the validation.

This covers 99.3% of the cases we care about.