From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9807 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2004 18:08:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9785 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2004 18:08:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ams006.ftl.affinity.com) (216.219.253.152) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2004 18:08:50 -0000 Received: from coyotegulch.com ([4.4.125.218]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with ESMTP id <217874-17780>; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:07:46 -0500 Message-ID: <400C1CEE.5090400@coyotegulch.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:08:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Dewar CC: Gabriel Dos Reis , Nick Burrett , Marc Espie , geoffk@apple.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal References: <90200277-4301-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040110002526.GA13568@disaster.jaj.com> <82D6F34E-4306-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <20040110154129.GA28152@disaster.jaj.com> <1073935323.3458.42.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> <1073951351.3458.162.camel@minax.codesourcery.com> <20040119013113.044D74895@quatramaran.ens.fr> <400BB40B.4070101@dsvr.net> <400BE1D3.7010105@gnat.com> <400C00DF.5050006@coyotegulch.com> <400C16CE.6060000@gnat.com> In-Reply-To: <400C16CE.6060000@gnat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01328.txt.bz2 Robert Dewar wrote: > The excellent support for cross-compilation on the other hand does seem > a key advantage, and that is what makes it practical to target older > machines. This is what I meant by lauding GCC's "support for older hardware." I did quite a bit of cross-compiling for an embedded telephon application; I sure as heck don't expect my cell phone to run GCC! On the other hand, it is unwise for GCC to ignore compile speed, under the assumption that people can just buy a faster machine or more RAM. Not everyone is as fortunate as we... -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing