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[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

    Alexandre> Since it seems that, of all 64-bit ports, the ppc is
    Alexandre> the only one that fails with a 64-bit HOST_WIDE_INT,
    Alexandre> how about a new target macro that would allow it to
    Alexandre> force hwint.h to not use long long, while we work on
    Alexandre> fixing the problems in the PPC port that prevent it
    Alexandre> from working?

This is an approach we take far too often, IMO.  We end up with more
configury bits than you can shake a stick at, all poorly documented,
and everything gets over-tangled.

Let's just fix the PPC problems.  There's nothing I know of that makes
the changes to hwint.h super-urgent *right now*.

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