> As a heavy debugger of cross compilers I strongly disagree with this > sentiment. Host dependencies of any sort are a bug.
Amen to that. Independence from the host is paramount to guarantee *reproducibility* of results over any on trivial time span. And that's something highly prised in the embedded development world. For the record, I also agree they are bugs (and said that). My point was that there are indeed still such bugs and was against putting fixing them into yet another critical path.