Darwin as primary platform

[Eric Christopher]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Bradley Lucier wrote:

>
> On Sep 22, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
>
>> Bradley Lucier wrote:
>>> Right now, it seems that one may not be able to build a 64-bit  
>>> version of the compiler itself
>>
>> You may or may not have noticed that there are no 64-bit native  
>> targets for darwin.
>
> I just looked at
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26854
>
> again, where I use a 64-bit version of 4.1.0 on powerpc-apple- 
> darwin8.5.0.  So it is (was?) possible to build a 64-bit version of  
> 4.1.0 on (at least one version of) darwin.
>
> I would consider not being able to do so for 4.2 a regression.

I'm surprised it worked at all, and the way you did so is obviously  
not the same way we would for any other 64-bit host in gcc - so why  
would you expect that to work?

FWIW I think a 64-bit native version might be nice as a separate  
target, but I've been told there's no real advantage there either on  
ppc.

-eric