Aaron Gray wrote:
* what is the proportion of cross-compilation? I have no real clue.
I would suppose that during all the GCC runs in the last month, only a
minority was cross-compilation (for some embedded systems). Of these,
what are the favorite target machines & systems. I really don't know
this one (maybe ARM or PowerPC32?).
Don't forget all the Linux based routers like OpenWRT and Netgear
devices that are cross compiled using GCC. GCC+Linux is very scalable !
Aren't they often ARM boards running Linux? But usually, you cross
compile (on Linux/x86 or AMD64, towards target Linux/ARM or whatever)...
I'm more interested in figures from the GCC user perspective. A device
with some embedded Linux, even if sold in the millions, has its software
probably compiled only a few times for the last release (and perhaps a
thousand times for its entire development). Linux based routers could
not run the GCC compiler (inside the router)!
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