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kupiakos 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What the hell is a target triple?

It's being used correctly: something that is conspicuously old-fashioned for its environment is an anachronism. A toolchain that only supports native builds fits.

Retr0id 24 days ago [–]

The article does not place any given toolchain within an incorrect environment, though.

If someone said "old compilers were usually cross-compilers", that would be an ahistoric statement (somewhat).

If someone used clang in a movie set in the 90s, that would be anachronistic.

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