From: bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minimum GCC version to safely compile 64-bit binaries for AMD64?
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050904001929.GA30341@dementia.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4315EE33.3090900@eso.org>
Neil Ferguson wrote:
> Can GCC 3.3 compile 64-bit binaries that work reliably on AMD64?
You might find it comforting to know that the Debian GNU/Linux port to
amd64 compiled almost all of the thousands of packages in Debian using
the gcc 3.3.5 compiler. (It's unofficial because Debian has yet to
include the port in their mainstream yet. That part is happening now.)
> What would the minimum recommended version of GCC be? (I'd be curious to
> know even if GCC 3.3 is OK, for my own historical interest.)
Of course as bug fixes and enhancements are made the best version
increases version number. So while 3.3 is probably okay depending
upon what you are doing that does not mean that bugs don't exist.
Version 3.4 is better and version 4.0 is better and so on and so on.
Probably the best thing is to just push forward and see how it goes.
If this is your first push into 64-bit space then the biggest problems
will be type safety in your code.
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-04 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-31 17:52 Neil Ferguson
2005-09-04 0:19 ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2005-09-06 14:10 ` Neil Ferguson
2005-09-06 15:23 ` Bob Proulx
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