Question

The __________ is a technique for building cross compilers for other machines.

(a) Brazilian Cross

(b) Canadian Cross

(c) Mexican Cross

(d) X-cross

The question was posed to me in an interview for job.

This interesting question is from Cross Compiler topic in chapter Compiler Introduction of Compiler

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) Canadian Cross

For explanation I would say: The Canadian Cross is a technique for building cross compilers for other machines. Given three machines X, Y, and Z, one uses machine X (e.g. running Windows XP on an IA-32 processor) to build a cross compiler that runs on machine Y (e.g. running Mac OS X on an x86-64 processor) to create executables for machine Z.