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Re: Any plan to support Windows/x86-64?
- From: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:26:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Any plan to support Windows/x86-64?
> Is there any plan to support Windows/x86-64?
I haven't heard of anyone wanting to work on such a port.
> What are needed for the port?
What you'ld need for any OS port. GCC needs to support the Windows
x64 ABI, you need a suitable runtime library, and you need a suitable
assembler and linker.
I'm not sure how close the Windows x64 ABI is to the x86-64 ABI, but it
seems to be a fair bit different. Porting MinGW should be the simplest
way to get a suitable runtime library, though maybe you'ld want to use
a newer version of the Microsoft C runtime libary. Using binutils as
the assembler and linker is pretty much a given, but they'd need to be
ported to support the Windows x64 PE32+ PECOFF, if they don't already.
Ross Ridge