[Crash-utility] PPC64 compiler question

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> The default for RHEL5 is 32bit:
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/Performance+FAQs#PerformanceFAQs-WhyistheRHEL5defaultforapplications32bitandtheSLES11default64bit%3F
> 
> The default for RHEL6 presumably changed to be 64bit like SLES11. To
> quote big blue (when talking about RHEL5): "It is logical that the
> next version of RHEL would likely move to a 64-bit default."

Right -- but is the change built into the gcc binary?  Or is there
some other file/environment-variable or whatever that gcc looks at?

Dave