Go patch committed: Size of int is now 64 bits on x86_64

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> This patch to the Go compiler and library changes the size of the Go
> type "int" to be the same as the size of a pointer.  This means that on
> x86_64 the size of int will be 64 bits.  This matches the new behaviour
> of the other Go compiler, and is the intended implementation for the
> future Go 1.1 release.  Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.  Committed to mainline.

By the way, if you have an existing working directory with
--enable-languages=go, make sure to remove your TARGET/libgo directory
before you build after updating to this patch.  This change requires
rebuilding all the object files, but there is no dependency that will
force that to happen.

Ian