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Re: 1/2 OT: why is it called "canadian cross" ?



Doesn't section 4.9 at the URI provided which states:


"One cool thing about the GNU tools is that they support building a cross compiler for one host on another host (i.e. building a cross-compiler with a cross-compiler). This is called a `Canadian Cross' because at the time a name was needed, Canada had three national parties."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


answer your question? Or were you asking why Canada had three national parties?


-Dave


* Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>* Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2004-10-30 at 15:27:10 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>>
>>
>>>let me ask an non-technical question:
>>>Where comes the name "canadian cross" from ?
>>
>>2nd hit on googling "canadian cross":
>>
>>http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/FAQ-4.html#ss4.9
>
>
>Does not answer my question. I'd like to know /why/ it is called so.

Ah, but it does. Three parties: host, build, and target.

eh, but what does this have to do w/ Canadians ?



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