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Re: Cross Compiler question (the essence of a Canadian Cross Compiler)

From: Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip dot com dot au>
To: "J. Robert Wyatt" <jamwyatt at cisco dot com>
Cc: crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:37:02 +1000
Subject: Re: Cross Compiler question (the essence of a Canadian Cross Compiler)
References: <BF168B74.256%jamwyatt@cisco.com>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:55:48PM -0500, J. Robert Wyatt wrote:

> Basically, the --build is the i686 system and the --host and --target are
> one in the same ... want a compiler that runs on ARM to generate for ARM. Is
> this essentially a Canadian Cross compiler?

This is covered in the GCC Internals manual:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Configure-Terms.html

What you are talking about is referred to variously as either of the
following:

  - host-x-host
  - crossed native
  - cross-built native

I suppose it's a variation on Canadian :-)

Regards
Greg
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