PPC 64bit library status?

[Bill Northcott]

On 01/05/2005, at 1:11 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>> Even if the libraries build, will libffi or libobjc work on 64 bit
>>> PPC????  Since I don't have access to a 64 bit PPC machine I cannot
>>> test this.
>>>
> There was some talk about this earlier this year and then the support
> for building the 64bit libraries on darwin was turned off for both the
> 4.0.0 release and on the mainline.

That much was sort of obvious.  However, if they are enabled in the  
build, libobjc and libgfortran do build.  Are they likely to be  
functional?

Libffi does not build using the -m64 flag on the compiler.
>
> Note why again are you using Apple's branch.  It does not get all  
> fixes
> which the 4.0 release branch will get.
>
Basically my logic is fairly simple.  If I use Apple's OS, I feel  
happier using their compiler.  While that creates some problems, it  
avoids others like the restFP,savFP issue.

The code I am using was synced to the release gcc-4.0.0 on 20 April.   
So it is not that out of date.

Bill Northcott