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

From: Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 23:24:58 EST

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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