On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 11:15:21PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-06-25 at 23:58 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 10:54:21PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2025-06-25 at 22:09 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > > > i686-linux is one of the few primary architectures for gcc
> > >
> > > Maybe it shouldn't be any more?
> >
> > It is important to have some 32-bit architectures among the primary targets
> > to maintain 32 vs. 64 code cleanliness, make sure the right printf or
> > gcc_diag format specifiers are used in the code etc.
>
> It's only important so long as 32-bit matters. Does 32-bit still really
> matter? Has GCC thought about this?
Yes, GCC does care about both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts and 8-bit, 16-bit,
20-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit targets. Sure, 64-bit hosts are these
days more important, but still GCC is used in many kinds of different
environment. Portability is a very important goal of the project.
Speaking as one of the Release Managers responsible for it.
Jakub
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