From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25347 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2004 18:26:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25249 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2004 18:26:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Dec 2004 18:26:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 26099 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2004 18:26:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (mitchell@127.0.0.1) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2004 18:26:40 -0000 Message-ID: <41BF305D.2080606@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:26:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rainer Orth CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: gcc -m64 for Solaris10 x86 References: <200412131355.20799.fld@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20041213220842.GA51045@mail1.thewrittenword.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00519.txt.bz2 Rainer Orth wrote: > Albert Chin writes: > > >>So GCC on Solaris 10/x86 will require GNU as? Why isn't >>/usr/ccs/bin/as good enough? > > > Some uses are just artifacts of the initial port than can easily be > avoided. See the thread starting at > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-11/msg00908.html > > for an initial attempt to use Sun as instead. I haven't found time yet to > further work on the open issues. But, note that Sun itself intends to use GNU as with GCC -- and encourage its customers to do the same. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC mark@codesourcery.com (916) 791-8304