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Re: SPARC V9/64 support

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   Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:39:50 +0200

   What is the state of the V9/64-bit support in EGCS?

All the infrastructure is there.  Support for all of the v9 code
models is there and functioning.

I use a snapshot from some time back to do all of my 64-bit kernel
builds for Sparc/Linux.

However floating point is unreliable, my SUBREG fixups need to be
completed before the compiler can be used for anything serious at all.

I still classify it an unsupported configuration for this reason.  A
bootstrap of the compiler might work, but I'd be surprised if less
than half of the testsuite failed afterwards.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com