On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Saturday 10 December 2011 08:15:10 octoploid wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> writes: >>> > - x32 is the default ABI >>> >>> Given that it's relatively easy to hit the 4GB barrier in the >>> toolchain (e.g. Firefox LTO build), wouldn't it make sense to >>> build gcc, binutils, et.al. as 64-bit LSB executables? >> >> no >> -mike > > On a completely random note, can you even build chromium with a 32-bit > linker? I vaguely recall it requiring more than 4gb of ram to link ;p > > -A >
I think it is around 2.2 GB on amd64 with debug stuff (-ggdb). Under half that without the debug. I'm pretty sure there gentoo users on x86 that are able to build it; it does have an x86 keyword afterall. :)
