GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Karel Gardas wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
>> On May 17, 2005, Karel Gardas <kgardas@objectsecurity.com> wrote:
>>
>>> you see that 4.0 added "embedded" platforms like arm-none-elf and
>>> mips-none-elf to the primary platforms list.
>>
>>
>> These are only embedded targets.  You can't run GCC natively on them,
>> so they don't help embedded hosts in any way.
> 
> 
> Yes, but Ralf was complaining about embedded cross-compiling development 
> for RTEMS. I have not tried to reply to Peter Barada who complains about 
> GCC inablity to be run on embedded targets directly.

Logically Peter's situation is the same as the NetBSD issue with 
building and testing on old hosts.   He is running GNU/Linux on
ColdFire and I suspect his ColdFire target is probably faster and better 
equipped than the old UNIX boxes the BSD folks mentioned.

> Karel
> -- 
> Karel Gardas                  kgardas@objectsecurity.com
> ObjectSecurity Ltd.           http://www.objectsecurity.com


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