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Re: Is 64-bit PowerPC disabled on Cygwin Hosts?
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 07:00:18AM +0200, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 06/10/17 01:40, Alan Modra wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 09:28:53AM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >>Does anyone have any hints on what could be going on?
> >If you're expecting to get powerpc64 support with powerpc-*-rtems*,
> >then you will need to add --enable-64-bit-bfd on a 32-bit host.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to enable this option by default if you build cross
> tools?
No, if you are hosting on a 32-bit machine for a 32-bit target, why
should you pay the penalty of calculating addresses, relocs etc. using
64-bit arithmetic? Your compiler might not even support long long, or
if it does, the support might have bugs.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM