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Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- To: <ak at muc dot de>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:59:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits
>> I don't mean to have support for this on 32-bit archs (as I already
>> expressed a couple of times). On 64-bit archs, gcc already has
almost
>> all of the required functionality, so no fundamental work is
needed.
>
>How would you do a 32->64bit cross compiler in your model?
Where do you see a problem here? This works without modification
(beyond that very patch or something similar) today, thanks to the
double-HWINT calculations done everywhere. And for this case, HWINT gets
forced to 64-bits on the 32-bit host.
Jan