So this does not really help to understand why the switch to gcc-4.8 didn't happened on the sparc architecture.Doh, beat me to it by a minute. Yeah, you see what I mean. :)It would be platform suicide to drop 32-bit code generation. Like many RISC architectures, switching to 64-bit is only done for apps that need it, because it is not free and will not, in general, make apps faster. Anyone who has worked on PPC, MIPS, SPARC, etc will be able to confirm this in a heartbeat, and no doubt gcc-sparc maintainers are aware of this as well.Patrick
Cheers. Sébastien