------- Comment #19 from rob1weld at aol dot com 2010-07-22 11:50 ------- (In reply to comment #10) > > Adding an additional 64-bit default configuration > > (like amd64-pc-solaris2* or whatever) doubles the testing burden on me for > > no > > real benefit. In fact, I believe that the sparcv9-sun-solaris2 > > configurations > > were a mistake and should be removed, rather than adding this for Solaris > > 2/x86, too. > While the advantages of sparc64-sun-solaris2.* are limited, I don't think we > should remove it now since it can handle more memory and 64-bit computing is > becoming the norm. > Similarly, I think adding a 64-bit compiler on x86 would be desirable. And it > would be faster than the 32-bit one because of the 64-bit ABI. As a matter of > fact, we already have the few required patches at AdaCore.
Eric, here were my results when I tried a year and a half ago. Not too bad, actually fairly good for a first attempt: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-02/msg01526.html Rob -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39150
