On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
FWIW I think a 64-bit native version might be nice as a separate target, but I've been told there's no real advantage there either on ppc.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment, but with a 64-bit gcc you can compile machine-generated programs that are so large that gcc's internal data structures take more memory than you can address in 32 bits.
John Mashey makes this part of his fourth step on the progress from a 32-bit to a 64-bit operating system. Mashey's "10 step program" to move from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware and operating systems can be found on page 32 of the current issue of Queue, which means page 34 of the pdf file
http://www.acm.org/acmqueue/digital/Queuevol4no8_October2006.pdf Brad
