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Re: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in - ?!
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> Interesting, the major reason for disabling -m64 by default for 32bit
> compilers was the fact that it enforces HOST_WIDE_INT to be 64bit
> slowing down the whole compiler considerably. Are Debian's folks happy
> to wait longer for compilation or has this overhead changed?
They haven't done any measuring I know of, but we needed 64-bit
compilers for a variety of reasons and this was much less disruptive
than packaging a second copy of GCC.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery