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diff --git a/doc/environment.rst b/doc/environment.rst index 3a4c96d64..e519bd493 100644 --- a/doc/environment.rst +++ b/doc/environment.rst @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ cross compiler instead of the native one: $ arm-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc test.c -o test -Also part of what we consider to be the “toolchain” is the runtime +Also part of what we consider to be the “toolchain” is the run-time library (libc, dynamic linker). All programs running on the embedded system are linked against the libc, which also offers the interface from user space functions to the kernel. @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ floating point code, it will fail. This is also the case when the toolchain builds code for i686 CPUs, whereas the target is i586. So in order to make things working consistently it is necessary that the -runtime libc is identical with the libc the compiler was built against. +run-time libc is identical with the libc the compiler was built against. PTXdist doesn’t contain a pre-built binary toolchain. Remember that it’s not a distribution but a development tool. But it can be used to build a |