Branching for GCC 3.0

Brad Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu
Sun Jan 7 14:44:00 GMT 2001


> 
>   I'd like to see GCC 3.0 support 64-bit binaries on sparc,
>   which would involve merging Jakub's subreg-branch.
> 
> I have no objection in principle -- but this is definitely not a high
> priority.  And, if the subreg branch contains substantial changes that
> are likely to be stabilizing on other targets, this will probably have
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
I presume you mean destabilizing.

> to wait.

Considering how many years Sun's 64-bit Ultrasparc implementation has been
out without proper support from gcc, this may be considered an embarrassment.

But maybe it is Sun that should be embarrassed; I can't imagine why they
haven't thrown even a little bit of money at gcc development to get this
situation fixed.

Brad


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