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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Brendan Simon wrote: > > I am trying to compile a powerpc cross compiler for the MPC860. > Am I better off using egcs-1.1b or gcc-2.8.1 ? > I assume egcs is a better compiler (especially for C++) but is gcc more > stable ? > I also assume that egcs has better powerpc support but it is just a > guess. > I found one bug in egcs-1.1b that was not in gcc-2.8.1 relating to signed char function arguments and optimization. I'm still trying to track this one down. > I've tried the following targets for a linux hosted powerpc cross > compiler. > --target=ppc-elf > --target=ppc-eabi > --target=powerpc-unknow-eabi works for me > I got errors so I thought I'd try --target=m68k-coff as it is pretty > mature. The same errors. > ppc-eabi gives"as: unrecognized option `-ppc'" > m68k-coff gives "as: unrecogized option -a68020" or something simialr. > > Is it using the correct assembler. Maybe its using the native linux > i386 assembler ?? > Probably. Do you have a cross assembler installed? I used binutils-2.9.1 and configured it with the same prefix= as egcs or gcc. I'm by no means an expert at this though. > Can anyone help. Some error logs are attatched. > > > > -- Brian Ford Software Engineer Vital Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 ________________________________________________ To get help for the crossgcc list, send mail to crossgcc-request@cygnus.com with the text 'help' (without the quotes) in the body of the message.