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Re: Compiling gcc in 64 bits mode

From: kevin diggs <diggskevin38 at gmail dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: lol37 lol37 <lol37cs16 at gmail dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:40:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Compiling gcc in 64 bits mode
References: <CAG0GeRCoBQ_G0y_XWSo2UgvHHkvk0wLiG8puffo=AT_xpGKMCQ@mail.gmail.com> <mcrwrf09ali.fsf@coign.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>
> Normally if you build gcc on a 64-bit host it will automatically be
> configured to generate 64-bit code.
>
I don't have any x86-64 (int64) systems. Is it better to use 64-bit on
x86-64 even with the larger memory footprint (because the programming
model is better (more registers, etc))? Is there a 32-bit pointer
(address space 64-bit programming model?

Thanks!

kevin

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