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

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Jul 28 15:12:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> Interesting, the major reason for disabling -m64 by default for 32bit
> compilers was the fact that it enforces HOST_WIDE_INT to be 64bit
> slowing down the whole compiler considerably.  Are Debian's folks happy
> to wait longer for compilation or has this overhead changed?

They haven't done any measuring I know of, but we needed 64-bit
compilers for a variety of reasons and this was much less disruptive
than packaging a second copy of GCC.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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