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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Sun/386BSD Cross Compiler?
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:59:18 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Message-ID: <veit.718462758@du9ds3>
References: <1992Oct5.204631.8172@tinman.mke.ab.com> <7636@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In <7636@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.204631.8172@tinman.mke.ab.com> tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461) writes:
>>I've been thinking it would be really handy if I could use one of my
>>SPARCstations to compile 386BSD code (in particular X386).
>Cross-compiling isn't too difficult a problem - gcc2 can be configured
^^^^
I remembered there was once a 386bsd GCC2.2.2 kernel "project". Never heard
anything again about that after it has been said that gcc2 has some
optimization "misfeatures". Any news there?
>as one. I believe I sent out some patches to BSD's ld to use it as a
>cross-linker (it doesn't handle byte-order differences correctly)
>about 6 months ago, but I no can no longer find them.
>-- Richard
>--
>Richard Tobin,
>AI Applications Institute, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
>Edinburgh University.
Holger
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