[jakub@redhat.com: Re: 2.95.4, sparc64 issues ?]

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:58:44PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:52:47PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As stated, it was not part of any compiler released by FSF.
> > The tested configurations are gcc-2.96-RH, there is a patch floating around
> > for 3.0 and finally it was commited into trunk after 3.0 was branched off.
> 
> So, this means that there won't be any released version of gcc actually 
> running somewhat correctly on sparc64 for yet a year at least, right ?

3.1 is scheduled for March I think.
Anyway, what prevents you from running 32-bit programs on top of 64-bit
kernel? That's what Linux does for quite some time.
You only need 64-bit compiler for the kernel.

	Jakub