On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:21:56AM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Native compilers would be built on an ARM box or emulation creating an > ARM executable compiler that emits ARM code. But in both cases, the > compiler is coming from the same gcc sources. > > In either case, if you give it some C to compile, it should emit the > same ARM object file, one happens to emit that ARM object code with a > compiler that is built from i386 instructions itself and another does it > with the same compiler built from ARM instructions itself. In this way > "real native hardware" has absolutely *nothing* to do with it. I don't think that a cross-compiler always generates the very same binary code (e.g. I've been told that you can't always pre-compute constant floating point operations on the compiling host as you would on the target), but cross-compiling _should_ produce functionally identical code. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
