[rescue] Re: Solaris 9 issues

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, James Lockwood wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:05:06PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > > Don't they now include gcc on "bonus" discs?
> > > Word on the net is that it is broken for 64bit installations.
> >
> > replace broken with doesn't generate 64-bit binaries for sparc that
> > work at all.
> 
> Last I checked (a year ago or so) long double was still broken and the
> optimization was lousy, but everything else appeared functional.  For code
> that doesn't depend on long double it should be usable, though
> Workshop/Forte/name-of-the-week is very preferable.
> 
> Josh, what do you feel you need a 64bit compiler for?  If you're not
> working with either kernel drivers or apps that need more than a 4GB
> address space you can almost certainly do as well or better compiling in
> 32bit mode.
> 

What about acces to native 64bit data types (both int and FP). Plus access
to v9 optimizations too I guess...