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Re: 64-bit integers on IA32

From: "David Rasmussen" <david dot rasmussen at gmx dot net>
To: "Richard Henderson" <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:06:02 +0200
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers on IA32
References: <008601c252a8$9df66830$0808d30a@amadeus> <20020903092621.GC8737@redhat.com>

Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:46:07PM +0200, David Rasmussen wrote:
>> Has that and/or related problems been solved in the meantime, or
>> will they be solved in any near future?
>
> No and no.
>

Would you care to elaborate on that?
For example: Why is it hard to fix, can a fix ever be expected etc. etc. ?
Of course, with the x86 world soon moving to 64-bit, it won't matter much.
But this is still an area where gcc is consistently 30% or more behind other
good compilers. That is a shame.

/David

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