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Re: x86-64 support for gas part I
On Dec 20, 2000, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:
>> From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
>> Date: 20 Dec 2000 01:56:36 -0200
>> This compiler:
>>
>> acomp: SC3.0.1 13 Jul 1994 Sun C 3.0.1
>>
>> does support 64-bit long longs, but it sign-extended 0x[8-f]XXXXXXX
>> instead of taking it as an unsigned type and zero-extending it.
> That's OK, since GCC works just fine on Sun machines anyone can build
> GCC to compile their cross binutils.
Yeah, it's ok, but if someone doesn't know about this detail, he may
run into problems as I did. Also, I like using compilers other than
GCC as bootstrap compilers for testing, and this just makes my life
harder. Since the fix is simple, why not have it in?
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