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Re: Power PC Cross-compiler build

To: Bob Harmon <harmon@arcturus.craycom.com>
Subject: Re: Power PC Cross-compiler build
From: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
Date: 10 Feb 1997 11:23:16 -0500
Cc: crossgcc@cygnus.com
References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970206170235.23939A-100000.cygnus.crossgcc@arcturus>
Reply-To: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>

harmon@arcturus.craycom.com (Bob Harmon) writes:

> This is also very interesting to me... It seems that ELF
> is the only supported option for power PC, why is that?

Mostly because that's what the EABI spec requires.  Lynx uses XCOFF, I suspect
because it wanted to use the AIX tools, or it predated the EABI spec.

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