http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60821
--- Comment #4 from a.h.jaffe at gmail dot com --- (In reply to Marek Polacek from comment #3) > Whoops, sorry. I better let Darwin folks look at it. Ah, but in fact *I* misunderstood. There's a difference between the FSF and Apple versions: "FSF GCC on Darwin does not create “fat” object files; it creates an object file for the single architecture that GCC was built to target" So I still think there's at least a "misfeature" in the sense that there should be a more graceful failure here, but in some sense the docs are right. However, a more general question: WHY doesn't FSF gcc have this capability?
