------- Additional Comments From ericw at evcohs dot com 2005-02-24 16:21 ------- Subject: Re: 4.0 bootstrap unreasonably requires 64-bit target type mode support.
schlie at comcast dot net wrote: >------- Additional Comments From schlie at comcast dot net 2005-02-24 16:14 >------- >Subject: Re: 4.0 bootstrap unreasonably requires > 64-bit target type mode support. > > > >>Maybe I can be clearer, I am not stating that the avr port should not >>support 64-bit long long; just asserting that any port should not require >>64-bit integers to be able to build the compiler, if the language it's >>being built to support does not correspondingly require it. >> >>(the avr port was simply used as an example demonstration of the problem) >> >> > >The further good news is that upon reviewing the DWARF2 spec in detail, >and GCC's implementation, it's clear that a 32-bit DWARF data structure >is sufficient to support any target with 32-bit or less data type sizes. > >(which seems that it may be reasonably easy to support by declaring the >DWARF data structure size as a function of the size of target's the maxim >declared data type size; although possibly limited to a practical minimum >of 32-bits, which seems much more reasonable for smaller targets) > >[ I'll try a few experiments ] > > > > > Good. Can somebody with sufficient permissions please close this non-bug? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20143
