Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Meissner <> | Date | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:24:58 -0500 | Subject | Re: PPC should not use -fno-builtin (was Re: 2.3.47 imac build?) |
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Michael Meissner wrote: > > long since dead, it is kind of hard to change for 32-bit land (obviously 64 bit > > land will have an different ABI). > > That is the crux of the matter.... In the PPC arch, size_t is > unconditionally the same whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit procesor...
As far as I know, the 64-bit ppc compiler is still in development. Yes, size_t probably needs to be unsigned long for 64-bit targets, but it must be unsigned int for 32-bit targets, or PPC Linux has to use a different ABI....
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