Cross-compilers.

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 16:57 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> dwmw2 at infradead.org (David Woodhouse) writes:

> > and a set of cross-compilers -- preferably the same versions of each
> > as the one in Core.
> 
> This will create a huge amount of variations:
> 
> * soft-float/hard-float
> * little/big-endianess
> * cpu optimized libs (e.g. ARM XScale, EP9301, Thumb/non-thumb); multi-lib
>   support would be probably too much overkill for embedded platforms
The contrary is true. Multilibs initially have been invented for
embedded targets and have a long history there, predating using them on
"non-embedded" OSes.

The rationale is quite simple: On embedded targets "squeezing the max"
is much more of importance than on "non-embedded OSes", because embedded
systems often are based on low-end CPUs with very limited resources.

Ralf