From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Eric Dana <edana@bgs.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: AIX/PPC 64-bit support 
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:55:00 -0000
Message-id: <9805010151.AA32080@rios1.watson.ibm.com>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.980430173331.5020A-100000@sunws3.bgs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg01193.html

>>>>> Eric Dana writes:

Eric> My company has a need for 64-bit support on IBM 64-bit processors
Eric> (S70 systems, AIX 4.3). Is any work being done on this? I'd willing
Eric> to volunteer to help get this done.

	Yes, work is progressing on this.  Support might be included in
the next EGCS release.  Initial releases containing support may not be as
robust or efficient as the current 32-bit support.

	Note that GNU binutils (GAS / GLD) and GDB support is not in plan.

David
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