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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:31:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: Anybody ever got an ARM Thumb-2 cross compiler to work?
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 00:18 Gary Oblock via Gcc-help, <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
wrote:

> The subject line says it all...
>
> I'm beginning to think off the shelf gcc cross compilers are impossible
> to create because of binutils.


Why?

What do you mean by "off the shelf"?

At other companies we for the most part
> created custom assemblers, loaders and libraries from scratch
> when we built a gcc cross compiler.
>

Why can't you just build a cross binutils too?