On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I think compiler can and should be host independent, like LLVM. > > It is. Changes to code generation depending on the host are considered to be > serious bugs, and have been long before LLVM existed.
I'd like that to be the case, but PR 35466 was closed as WONTFIX. I don't know whether the problem there applies to other targets as well, but I'd prefer requiring HOST_WIDE_INT to be 64 bits for all hosts and targets simply to eliminate the risk of this class of bugs. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com