thought: the term "cross compiler" is mainly a thing because GNU wanted to use macros+globals & that made gcc+binutils nonretargetable
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had that not been the case, Debian would have shipped gcc with every backend in the same binary since late 90s
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@whitequark pretty sure the term 'cross compiler' predates even gnu itself.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@whitequark @marshray Doesn't actually work, at least not yet. Too much hard-coded target knowledge, lib & include paths, etc.
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