cross-compiling desirable
I would [i]really[/i] like to see the ability in the Studio compilers to cross compile SPARC code on x86 and vice versa.
This would incentivize the OpenSolaris engineering team to support cross-compilation as well, I believe.
The reason for this is that my build host for SPARC is a _lot_ slower than the Opteron system I have. I suspect that I'm not alone in this, and that some folks may have the reverse.
Support for cross-compilation would probably also help ISVs out that want to support both ISAs. Imagine having a single build host to build a product for a bunch of platforms. Folks already do this for gcc.
I realize that a link step or somesuch is going to require a copy of the OS libraries and headers be installed, but its easy to get those from OpenSolaris (or even a stock Solaris build just installed or copied to an alternate directory).
The only thing we can't solve in OpenSolaris itself to do this is making the compilers (code generation, assembler, and optimization) able to cross-compile. If Studio had this feature (and it shouldn't be hard to add), then we'd be able to take the next step to enable cross-compilation of Solaris itself.
