Re: Ultrasparc 1 has no 64 bit pointers?

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2 total messages Started by Eshel Liran Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00

#23048

Author: Eshel Liran
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00

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Does anybody know if a 64 bit gcc compiler is available for ultrasparc
running solaris ?

-Liran
liran@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il

Re: Ultrasparc 1 has no 64 bit pointers?

#23049

Author: Dean P. McCullough
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <4lglln$f7e@cnn.cc.biu.ac.il>,
Eshel Liran <liran@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il> wrote:
>Does anybody know if a 64 bit gcc compiler is available for ultrasparc
>running solaris ?
>
>-Liran
>liran@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il
>

Wont help.  You need a 64-bit os to save and restore ALL of the
registers.  (or the compiler has to know to use only a couple of the
registers or keep retrying an operation until it got the correct
result :-(

-- 

Dean P McCullough                            dpmccul@zombie.ncsc.mil

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