On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:09 PM, John E. / TDM <[email protected]> wrote:
>  On 9/8/2010 9:43 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> I see. This makes sense. However, TDM64 does use "gcc", under
>> 32bit or 64bit Windows. I think it is a cross-compiler as well.
>
> No, TDM64 GCC is a native x86_64-w64-mingw32 compiler -- in other words,
> it runs under Windows 64-bit and targets (by default) Windows 64-bit.

Thanks for the clarification. I now understand that it is a native
64bit compiler under 64bit Windows.

> (You can pretty much ignore the fact that GCC's own executables just
> happen to be compiled with "-m32" to allow it to also run under Windows
> 32-bit, )

That is the confusing part. I think in this case it is a cross-compiler under
32bit Windows--> it is producing 64bit binary which does not run under
32bit Windows.

-- 
Xiaofan

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