Pascal language for HP49-50

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(11-24-2020 02:06 PM)cruff Wrote:  

(11-24-2020 08:37 AM)OtakuLab Wrote:  The degree of code optimization is only rudimentary in most cross compilers, so native compilers are always preferable.

You keep making this statement, but how many cross compilers have you actually used? How many microcontroller targets have you written code for? Ever use an Arduino? How about the ARM equivalent SBC? No native compilers are available for any of those targets. I use a cross compiler for my day job, there is no way a native compiler, if one existed, could come close to the abilities of the hosted development environment on my laptop.

Anyway the two most widespread (cross) compilers, gcc and clang, are strictly the same whether they are built as native or cross compilers. So optimizations will be the same as long as the same flags are used