Re: Cross-compiler needed: generate MIPS code on a Sparc

Eric Muller <muller@src.dec.com>
Mon, 19 Jul 1993 07:24:28 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: Eric Muller <muller@src.dec.com>
Keywords: C, GCC
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
References: 93-07-057
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 07:24:28 GMT

Richard Chapman <chapman@cs.cornell.EDU> writes:
|> [cross compiling GCC for MIPS seems impossible because the doc says]
|> * Cross-compilers for the Mips as target do not work because the
|> auxiliary programs `mips-tdump.c' and `mips-tfile.c' can't be
|> compiled on anything but a Mips.


The mips-tdump program is not used by gcc, it is only a tool to debug
mips-tfile. mips-tfile needs to run only if you are compiling with
debugging information. So if you don't need debugging, the
documentation does not apply.


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Eric.
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