On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Mike Kronenberg wrote:
Looks like I'm a little late for the party, as always :) .
I really encourage everyone to work towards a gcc4.x solution for OS
X.
I just read and tried Alexanders x86_64 patch, as I finished our
x86_32.
If we could reach an out of the box solution for OS X, that would be
great!
That would really be great. I'd really love to see OSX as a supported
host OS.
You'll find the patches at [1]
It's basically an adaption of Pauls, Gwenoles and the Qs gcc4 OS X
x86 patches.
I'd rather go with Michael Matz's gcc4 patches. They look more sane
and clean to me than Gwenoles do and I believe the 5% performance hit
that goes with them is no real problem, as most people should be using
x86_64 nowadays anyway. On OSX this is even less of a problem, as only
few Intel Macs are not capable of running x86_64 code (namely the Core
Solo and Core Duo generation) and there is no need to run an x86_64
kernel to use x86_64 userspace code.
If by any chance you find the time to do this, please try to get
Michael Matz's patches conditional for gcc4 (no performance hit on
gcc3) and do the mach-o i386 support separate from that. I believe
this way everyone benefits from it and we could finally remove the
gcc3 dependency.
Cheers,
Alex
