From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
To: Scott Howard <scott@objsw.com>
Cc: crossgcc@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [Q] alpha egc -> motorolla dragonball
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1845.919451010@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:12:03 MST. < 36CD1CD3.1FC47334@objsw.com >
In message < 36CD1CD3.1FC47334@objsw.com >you write:
> I haven't tried it, so I'm not really on top of the details, but the gnu
> documentation warns about problems when you host a cross-compiler for a
> 32-bit target on a 64-bit host (which I believe applies to the Alpha).
>
> These issues may soon be (or may have already been) resolved by the EGCS
> project. Can anyone on the EGCS list provide some insight?
What problems are you referring to? As far as I know it's supposed to work.
It's had bugs in the past, and no doubt it'll have bugs in the future, but
that's no different than building a 32x32 or 32x64 cross compiler.
jeff
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
To: Scott Howard <scott@objsw.com>
Cc: crossgcc@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [Q] alpha egc -> motorolla dragonball
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1845.919451010@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228225300.NS7jRnq06ibFQutXxsynDBsl8mNyBQRcz1LCiPFezF0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36CD1CD3.1FC47334@objsw.com>
In message < 36CD1CD3.1FC47334@objsw.com >you write:
> I haven't tried it, so I'm not really on top of the details, but the gnu
> documentation warns about problems when you host a cross-compiler for a
> 32-bit target on a 64-bit host (which I believe applies to the Alpha).
>
> These issues may soon be (or may have already been) resolved by the EGCS
> project. Can anyone on the EGCS list provide some insight?
What problems are you referring to? As far as I know it's supposed to work.
It's had bugs in the past, and no doubt it'll have bugs in the future, but
that's no different than building a 32x32 or 32x64 cross compiler.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-19 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <19990218210259.A720@loki.midheimar>
1999-02-19 0:09 ` Scott Howard
[not found] ` < 36CD1CD3.1FC47334@objsw.com >
1999-02-19 11:04 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-02-28 22:53 ` Scott Howard
1999-03-04 3:40 gcc-2.7 creates faster code than pgcc-1.1.1 Терехин Вячеслав
[not found] ` < 001401be6633$fed21a60$a18330d4@main.medtech.ru >
1999-03-04 13:20 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` < 19990304222018.A21939@pcep-jamie.cern.ch >
1999-03-04 17:05 ` Zack Weinberg
[not found] ` < 199903050104.UAA15335@octiron.phys.columbia.edu >
1999-03-04 18:09 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Jamie Lokier
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Терехин Вячеслав
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-07-14 11:29 porting EGCS to the Cray T3E Julian C. Cummings
1998-07-14 11:29 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-12 3:55 1.0 sucessfull, install params questions Hermann Lauer
1997-12-12 8:55 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-12 10:18 ` Michael Poole
[not found] ` <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
1997-12-12 15:46 ` Hermann Lauer
1998-07-14 14:29 ` porting EGCS to the Cray T3E Julian C. Cummings
1998-07-14 13:20 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-07-14 16:57 ` Julian C. Cummings
1998-07-14 14:29 ` Jeffrey A Law
[not found] ` < 1845.919451010@hurl.cygnus.com >
1999-02-19 11:09 ` [Q] alpha egc -> motorola dragonball David Edelsohn
1999-02-28 22:53 ` David Edelsohn
[not found] ` < 13506.920599740@hurl.cygnus.com >
1999-03-04 20:04 ` gcc-2.7 creates faster code than pgcc-1.1.1 David Edelsohn
[not found] ` < 9903050403.AA36338@marc.watson.ibm.com >
1999-03-04 20:31 ` Jeffrey A Law
[not found] ` < 13939.920608288@hurl.cygnus.com >
1999-03-05 6:53 ` craig
[not found] ` < 19990305143358.4747.qmail@deer >
1999-03-05 9:30 ` Jeffrey A Law
[not found] ` < 15755.920655014@hurl.cygnus.com >
1999-03-05 10:18 ` Joe Buck
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Joe Buck
1999-03-05 10:19 ` craig
1999-03-31 23:46 ` craig
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-03-31 23:46 ` craig
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-03-07 11:01 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-03-31 23:46 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-03-31 23:46 ` David Edelsohn
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