On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:45:23 -0400 Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 3. --enable-languages=cobol, and > > 4. the host and target are "plausible", 64-bit LE. > > Why does it need LE? I understand 64 bits. I might try it on my > PowerPC based Mac. :-) That's a good point. "Need" I don't know. I'm not even sure we test for it to determine "plausible". Thanks for pointing that out. Talking out of school, I think Bob would say if it's never been tried, it's more likely than not to fail. For speed of computation, we start off with minimal size integers, as small as one byte (which the user may define), and scale up the intermediate value as needs dictate. How that all behaves on a big endian system is a phenomenon yet unobserved. On your old Mac (I had one, too) we could start on Monday and check back on Tuesday. ;-) Seriously, once things settle down (they will, right?) we'll get access to the cfarm and see where the bits fly. --jkl
