64 bit support for unix

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:09:17PM -0400, Paul Carl wrote:
> Does GNU plan to support the build of 64 bit binaries for any platform?
> I have built a 64 bit compiler with 2.95.2 but it was very buggy and
> corrupted the 32 bit copiler. I ended up re-installing.

GCC supports several 64 bit targets, some of which are supported for very
long time.
>From your mail headers I assume you mean SPARC 64bit support, which gcc
2.95.x's release notes explicitely mention as not supported.
If you want a compiler supporting 64bit SPARC, you need at least the
subreg_byte changes in (either as applied patch, or from recent
gcc-3_1-branch).

	Jakub