Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)

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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> 
> > E.g. in python there are tests which call functions and check 
> > their result to see if we are currently on a platform where 
> > that function is broken (I think there was such a test for 
> > poll() and some other functions).
> 
> IMHO, that's broken sw engineering from ground up.

Oh?  The alternative I see is to do the test at run-time.  But that
adds to executable size and run-time slowdown on most platforms.

Doing it at build time is an improvement, for those people who don't
care about cross-compilation.  (Not me, you understand.)

-- Jamie
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