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Re: EGCS support


>  Yeah, I've been told :)   I'm not familiar with glibc the same way
>I am with gcc and naively assumed the meanings of host, build and 
>target might actually be the same.....

Actually, glibc uses those terms in the same way that all other GNU software
does.  The "host" is always the machine where the program is going to 
execute.  Newlib is the odd one out; it uses "--target" to choose what is 
really its host system.  I don't know why it was done this way.

p.



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