Re: Bug#251149: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken

[David S.Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 01:37:50 +0200

> David S. Miller wrote:
> [snip]
> > This is not a bug, it should be closed.  On sparc64, gcc should emit
> > 64-bit code by default.  If you want 32-bit code emitted on a sparc64
> > system you have exactly two options 1) add -m32 to the command line
> > or 2) run your build in a "sparc32 bash" environment.
> 
> JFTR, there's a more general tool in debian called linux32.

I think that's great.  Having "ppc32", "sparc32" et al. is not
very wise.