On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:25:41AM -0400, iudicium ferat wrote: > [off list] > > > That isn't "egcs", that's actually egcs64, which is the _only_ compiler > > known to produce stable kernels for sparc64. Anything else is buggy. > > Gcc 3.2 will produce Sparc64 under Solaris - has there been efforts to port > gcc 3.2 to Debian Sparc?
Sure. It's called the gcc-3.2 package and it too produces 64bit binaries for sparc64-linux. Problem is the kernel is a much more complex application than a binary, and it produces bad code in some parts of the kernel. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
