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Date:      Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:59:05 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changes to binutils (--target=alpha-freebsd) 
Message-ID:  <199909040159.TAA61964@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 18:41:27 PDT." <199909040141.SAA10170@vashon.polstra.com> 
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In message <199909040141.SAA10170@vashon.polstra.com> John Polstra writes:
: I don't know about binutils.  But there was a 32->64 bit cross
: compilation bug for the Alphas in gcc for a long time -- up until
: around the time of egcs 1.1.2.  It wasn't present in old gccs, but it
: got re-introduced at some point.

Does that mean it is still present?

: Once I fixed that, I was able to cross-bootstrap Modula-3 from an i386
: to an Alpha.  (Modula-3 uses the gcc back end, slightly modified.)

Well then.  Time to crank up the make to see if I've been informed
incorrectly....

I do know there may be several binaries that may need to be built that
might not work out right....

Warner


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