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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Replying to @whitequark
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 not sure about this... why is organizing target libraries, headers, linker scripts, etc. any easier with LLVM?2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@johnregehr it's not. you just don't need a cross-compiler anymore to do something useful4 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@whitequark but my overall rule is that regardless of LLVM, when the host and target are different something will suck1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@johnregehr @whitequark Well you also have broken configure scripts that want to run target binaries on the build machine...
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