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Re: Cross-compilers
« on: March 29, 2009, 07:10:41 PM »
It's typically the othe way around, since the OS just defines the ABI.
 

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Re: Cross-compilers
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2009, 08:16:29 PM »
Yup. Of course, someone very skilled with the target hardware may be able to write a compiler back-end faster than someone not so skilled with an OS can write a standard library and a linker. Neither task is trivial.

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Are you looking for a specific compiler that works with a specific IDE? If you're limiting the discussion to gcc, then as long as the target is supported, it's just a matter of building the cross-compiler.