Re: lamer question

[Thorsten Kranzkowski <th Marvin DL8BCU ampr org>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 08:28:47AM +0200, Andrita Constantin wrote:
> Can I  build an alpha kernel on a x86 machine?
> 

Yes. I did it for my AXPpci33.

You need to build a cross-compiler first.

I don't know whether it is still needed on recent gcc but I had to patch gcc
a little to use long long variables to handle 64 Bit values. It couldn't
emit a particular asm-instruction otherwise IIRC.

Thorsten

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