Re: [announcement] SYSAPI and SYSSVC for Windows

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

"Ekkehard Morgenstern" <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> writes:

> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> > GCC is fully capable of being built as a cross-compiler, so you do
> > not necessarily need a bootstrap compiler on your target system.
> 
> Thanks! I haven't thought of that! :)
> 
> So I could use an existing platform, write a code generator 
> (or description thereof if supported), 

The code generator in GCC is highly configurable; to port it to a new
CPU, you write a "machine description" file, which specifies how to
translate Register Transition Logic into assembler. See the GCC manual
for more info.

> and then use it as a cross compiler. Then I could compile all the
> tools and libraries needed on the target platform for GCC to compile
> itself.

Yes.

> Which GCC version would you recommend for doing that?

All are appropriate; GCC has been a cross compiler for a very long
time. If you want the fewest bugs in GNAT, use 3.15p.

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