64bit support for unix

[Brad Lucier]

Re:

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 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

I can't get 3.1 to build a compiler supporting 64bit SPARC on solaris2.8.
So what does this claim mean?  That the subreg_byte branch is a sufficient
or a necessary condition? Or that it supports 64bit SPARC on Linux, but
not on Solaris?

Brad