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From article <1993Sep23.080113.25381@cs.su.oz.au>, by rex@cs.su.oz.au (Rex Monty di Bona):
> In article <CDr6oD.BEt@imag.fr> veillard@imag.imag.fr (Daniel Veillard) writes:
>>  just wondering if someone has begun porting GCC (and GAS)
>> to the R4000 series of processors in 64 bit mode. I know
>> it is possible to switch the processor to run in 32 bit
>> mode (same instruction set as R[23]000 familly), but I
>> would be interested to have long and pointers encoded in
>> 64 bits. Any remarks or suggestions concerning the way
>> to make the porting easier would be great !
> 
> If this is to run on a RISC/OS box, then RISC/OS 5.01 doesn't
> support the 64bit mode...
> 

Ya know, this is one of the things that's keeping me from really
looking at using the R4000 series. Not everybody runs RiscOS. In
fact, a goodly number of people in the embedded market are NOT
running RiscOS.

For the sorts of embedded applications I do, I'm not really running
any OS at all.

I can't fathom why Mips/SGI doesn't feel an urgent need to get a
cross supporting compiler out that supports 64bit mode.


Well... enough of that. Sorry to tirade.
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