Re: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-02-01 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:46:41PM +, Martin Guy wrote: > 2008/1/31, Manuel López-Ibáñez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Nonetheless, if someone decided to go through the hassle of collecting > > tutorials and hints for various cross-compiling configurations in the > > wiki, I think many users will ap

Re: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Guy
2008/1/31, Manuel López-Ibáñez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nonetheless, if someone decided to go through the hassle of collecting > tutorials and hints for various cross-compiling configurations in the > wiki, I think many users will appreciate it. It is still considered by > many to be a "dark art"[*].

Re: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread NightStrike
On 1/30/08, Rodrigo Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am PhD student in Computer Engineering. I would like to contribute to GCC > and at the same time learn more about cross-compilers. I have taken a couple > of compiler classes and I can program in C. However, I am not familiar with

Re: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread David Daney
Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: On 31/01/2008, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Once you get into GCC in enough detail, you'll come to appreciate that cross-compiling is not particularly special. It's just the compiler running on a different system type to the code being generated. There is

Re: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 31/01/2008, Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once you get into GCC in enough detail, you'll come to appreciate that > cross-compiling is not particularly special. It's just the compiler > running on a different system type to the code being generated. There > is certainly a bit of int

RE: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Elliston
> It seems like the best place to start for someone new to GCC would be the > beginners projects off from the GCC Projects webpage > (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/beginner.html). I think I will start from there > and then try to move to the cross-compiling area. Once you get into GCC in enough deta

RE: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread Rodrigo Dominguez
for the links. They were helpful. Rodrigo -Original Message- From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:09 PM To: Rodrigo Dominguez Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Contributing to cross-compiling "Rodrigo Dominguez" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Rodrigo Dominguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am PhD student in Computer Engineering. I would like to contribute to GCC > and at the same time learn more about cross-compilers. I have taken a couple > of compiler classes and I can program in C. However, I am not familiar with > the GCC inter

Contributing to cross-compiling

2008-01-30 Thread Rodrigo Dominguez
Hi, I am PhD student in Computer Engineering. I would like to contribute to GCC and at the same time learn more about cross-compilers. I have taken a couple of compiler classes and I can program in C. However, I am not familiar with the GCC internals. Do you have any suggestions on a project relat