RE: [cdt-dev] CDT's handling of compilation switches

[Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Leo Treggiari wrote:
> Getting back to your original problem, adding support for 64-bit
> PowerPC, the way additional platforms have been added in the past is to
> define a new variant of the GNU tool-chain.  For example, we already
> have MAC and Sun specific variants.  Your 64-bit PowerPC tool-chain
> could set appropriate switches by default, add new switches, remove
> inappropriate switches, set the default binary parser, etc.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, that's what my original 
suggested patch does by adding new configurations to the plugin.xml 
file, which are enabled when ppc64 architecture is detected.

- Corey