From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA22497 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:55:04 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:55:20 +0100 From: Philipp Rumpf To: Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl Cc: "Brian S. Julin" , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Cross compiler -- on Alpha? Message-ID: <20000315195520.E673@abacus.local> References: <20000315182657.D673@abacus.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:30:40PM +0100 List-ID: > > It might. The only real difference between alpha and i386 to run a > > cross-compiler on is sizeof(long), and I don't think we rely on that > > too heavily in gcc. > > Wouldn't big endian vs little endian be an issue? PA-RISC is (usually) big-endian; Alpha and i386 are little-endian. Cross- compiling from i386 works, so this shouldn't be an issue for cross-compiling from Alpha. Philipp Rumpf