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
