Re: PPC should not use -fno-builtin (was Re: 2.3.47 imac build?)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 07:10:22 EST


> 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...

Which gives you an ABI stuck at 4Gbytes for eternity. That doesn't strike
me as terribly smart

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