Re: Ada and x86_64

[Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:20:00PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> >>>>> Jan Hubicka writes:
> 
> Jan> I am trying to get Ada working on x86_64 architecture and I am running into
> Jan> interesting problems.
> 
> Jan> First problem is use mov TImode divide that is not supported so results in
> Jan> libcall that is unresolved during building gnatchop.  I've tracked this down
> Jan> into bitsizetype being TImode and using TImode arithmetic to compute size of
> Jan> the type.
> 
> 	I thought that the TImode issue was mentioned in a previous
> discussion of Jim Wilson and Richard Kenner from a long time ago (2000?)
> because of GCC keeping track of bits.  Some issue of TImode support in
> libgcc.

Do you remember the thread?  I will try to check it.
Does this mean that Ada is basically broken on any 64bit architecture not having TImode arithmetics?

Honza
> 
> David