> I'm not sure why this should be different for x86_64 compared to all > other bi-arch toolchains?
It’s not, but it’s a particularly common one and has been reported multiple times here and on gcc-help. If we can help these users early, we spare ourselves the time to reply to such reports. (Also, documentation and this patch are not exclusive: in fact, I have also submitted a doc patch to make things clearer.) > I think the right place for this is a "Non-bugs" section in the > installation manual. Look at this as a diagnostics bug: our current diagnostics for this pretty common situation sucks. It comes late in the compilation, and the message itself isn’t helpful. FX
