Re: 586 vs 686

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> No, they're being made to be able to produce those for those reasons.
> It is yet to be seen if it will be successful, and using the x86_64
> kernel on i586 installs hinges upon this functionality so I recall.

AFAIK, Debian has been shipping i386 GCC with -m64 support for ages. The
drawback is that it's slower even when not using -m64 because some internal
types (HOST_WIDE_INT and related stuff) are larger.

        Kevin Kofler