gcc -m64 for Solaris10 x86

[Mark Mitchell]

Rainer Orth wrote:
> Mark Mitchell writes:
> 
> 
>>But, note that Sun itself intends to use GNU as with GCC -- and 
>>encourage its customers to do the same.
> 
> 
> Probably because at that time neither their compiler nor the assembler were
> ready for prime time.

I can't speculate as to the reasons.

But, I honestly don't see much point in using GCC with Sun's assembler; 
GAS is easily installed, and works fine.  It's not that I'd try to stop 
anybody from making GCC work with Sun as; it's just that I don't 
personally see much of an advantage.

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