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Re: Canonical forms

To: Joe Humel <jhumel at intrinsix dot com>
Subject: Re: Canonical forms
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Date: 02 Mar 2001 01:11:35 -0300
Cc: crossgcc at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010228170631.00ac1de0@mira.intrinsix.com>

On Feb 28, 2001, Joe Humel <jhumel@intrinsix.com> wrote:

> i.e. CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-KERNAL-OPERATING_SYSTEM.  This identifier
> tells "what the Hell I have configured".  In the most complex
> situation of building a cross-compiler on a machine that is neither
> the host or target, three machines are involved, i.e. build, host, and
> target.  My question is which machine does each element in the
> canonical form refer to.

Each of build, host and target have a completely separate triplet or
quadruple, that refers only to itself.

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