Am 07.04.2011 11:21, schrieb Skybuck Flying:
Perhaps you look at it from the binary level, but that's not fair, you
should look at it from the source code level.
Single refers to target.
A zero-target cross compiler would be a cross compiler under development
it has the framework to become a cross compiler but it does not yet have
any supported targets.
A single-target cross compiler is probably still a cross compiler under
development but already has support for a single target.
A dual-target cross compiler has support for two targets.
A 6-target cross compiler has support for six targets.
I would define a target as follows:
Target = harware (cpu) + operating system (assembler + linker + rtl (so
that application can hook into basic OS functionality))
By that definition FPC is a "multi target compiler", because every FPC
compiler for CPU A can compile code for all operating systems that are
supported inside the compiler. E.g. the i386 compiler can compile code
for Win32, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, NativeNT, ..., while the
ARM compiler can compile for WinCE, Linux, Mac OS X, ... .
Regards,
Sven
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