GCC build failed with your patch on 2001-01-09T11:35:00Z.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  9, 2001, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:

> powerpc-eabi is a 32-bit target.  I don't want this patch.  I've
> carefully not made this change for several years, because it will make
> code generation worse in the common case.  How can a backend override
> the change?

Also note that you should be able to generate identical code for a
powerpc-eabi target on a platform that has 64-bit longs (and they'd be
used as HOST_WIDE_INT regardless of LONG_TYPE_SIZE), so it's probably
a good idea to work on having powerpc-eabi work in such a
configuration, instead of just punting at it by requiring a
HOST_WIDE_INT that is 32-bits wide.

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