On Monday 16 January 2006 16:46, Richard Kenner wrote: > So a naiive ./configure && make will configure for host == target == > powerpc64 but still (wrongly so in your opinion?) build stage1 as > 32bit binaries (but defaulting to -m64 code generation now), and the > following stages will now become 64bit. > > That's most *definitely* wrong because we're lying to configure and saying > we're building a native compiler when we're really building a > cross-compiler. We're lying as to what the host is!
I don't see how this is any different to boostrapping gcc with any other system compiler. It's fairly common for the system compiler to use a different ABI to the new gcc. Why is 32/64-bit any different? Paul
