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Subject: Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.
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>> Nothing that abstracted.  I copy the necessary type definitions and
>> constants from target headers; they are "relatively" guaranteed never
>> to change.  It's a mess.
> 
> 
> How does the "cross" part of it work then?  Won't the sizes of the
> fundamental types, struct alignment, etc. change depending upon
> which host you compile it on?

Um, isn't this exactly the same problem as for shared libraries?  There 
the target stuff is described/coded in a host independant way.

Andrew