Darwin as primary platform

[Eric Christopher]

Bradley Lucier wrote:
> 
> On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment, but with a 64-bit gcc you can 
> compile machine-generated programs that are so large that gcc's internal 
> data structures take more memory than you can address in 32 bits.
> 

Aaah. I agree that this is a useful goal. Why not just add a 64-bit 
native target then that has a 32-bit multilib if you want that?

i.e. something like powerpc64-*-darwin* with a -m32 multilib?

> John Mashey makes this part of his fourth step on the progress from a 
> 32-bit to a 64-bit operating system. Mashey's "10 step program" to move 
> from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware and operating systems can be found on 
> page 32 of the current issue of Queue, which means page 34 of the pdf file
> 
> http://www.acm.org/acmqueue/digital/Queuevol4no8_October2006.pdf
> 

*puts in queue to read*

-eric