gcc-4.9-20130915 is now available

2013-09-15 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.9-20130915 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.9-20130915/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.9 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk

Re: ilp32 far pointers

2013-09-15 Thread David McQuillan
On 15/09/2013 16:46, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 15 September 2013 14:58, David McQuillan wrote: The basic aim of ilp32 is to emulate an old 32 bit environment on a new processor that supports 64 registers and pointers. However that has never been the real aim, if one was just trying to support

Re: ilp32 far pointers

2013-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 15 September 2013 14:58, David McQuillan wrote: > > The basic aim of ilp32 is to emulate an old 32 bit environment on a new > processor that supports 64 registers and pointers. However that has never > been the real aim, if one was just trying to support old programs there > would be little need

Re: ilp32 far pointers

2013-09-15 Thread David McQuillan
The basic aim of ilp32 is to emulate an old 32 bit environment on a new processor that supports 64 registers and pointers. However that has never been the real aim, if one was just trying to support old programs there would be little need for a special compiler option as you'd have the old co