On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote: > Interesting, the major reason for disabling -m64 by default for 32bit > compilers was the fact that it enforces HOST_WIDE_INT to be 64bit > slowing down the whole compiler considerably. Are Debian's folks happy > to wait longer for compilation or has this overhead changed?
They haven't done any measuring I know of, but we needed 64-bit compilers for a variety of reasons and this was much less disruptive than packaging a second copy of GCC. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
