sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in - ?!

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:56:14PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> does it mean I need a cross-compiler (to x86_64) to use -m64?
> It's strange because then -m64 is not useful at all
> - x86_64 cross compiler defaults to 64 bit anyway... right?

It overrides -m32 earlier on the command line.  It's also possible to
build 32-bit configurations which support 64-bit compilation - but
the default i686-linux configuration does not.  The i686-solaris2.10
port does, and Debian's i486-linux compilers do also (local patch).

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery