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Re: building slrn on sparc



On 14 Feb 2004 15:16:40 -0500
James Morrison <ja2morri@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>  I think we should throw away the gcc wrapper.  Currently gcc-3.3 defaults
> to the 32 bit arch then switches to 64 bit arch only when -m64 is provided.
> This is probably what most people expect so I think the gcc wrapper should
> be thrown away.

Absolutely not, I vehemently disagree.

When uname returns sparc64, gcc should produce 64-bit executables by default.
It is the only set of sane semantics for GCC bootstraps for example.



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