[PATCH] Fix PR 13987, compile time slow down on powerpc-apple-darwin

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jun 11 14:57:00 GMT 2004


> My sense is that it should have a platform specific override not to
> make it smaller, but to make it larger.  On a machine with 64-bit
> registers, we want to use a 64-bit type, because the bitmap code will
> (presumably) run faster.  Although many of those systems will have a
> 64-bit long, some will still use a 32-bit long.  So I think we should
> have the capacity for an override to speed up the compiler in such a
> case.

Is there any such system supported by GCC right now?


Segher



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