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Re: 64 bit support for unix
- To: Paul Carl <pcarl at arl dot army dot mil>
- Subject: Re: 64 bit support for unix
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:16:51 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3AD33E3D.F17B96D6@arl.army.mil>
- Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:09:17PM -0400, Paul Carl wrote:
> Does GNU plan to support the build of 64 bit binaries for any platform?
> I have built a 64 bit compiler with 2.95.2 but it was very buggy and
> corrupted the 32 bit copiler. I ended up re-installing.
GCC supports several 64 bit targets, some of which are supported for very
long time.
>From your mail headers I assume you mean SPARC 64bit support, which gcc
2.95.x's release notes explicitely mention as not supported.
If you want a compiler supporting 64bit SPARC, you need at least the
subreg_byte changes in (either as applied patch, or from recent
gcc-3_1-branch).
Jakub