Subject: Re: linux has pa risc support
To: George Herbert <gherbert@Axil.COM>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/14/1997 08:59:58
On Tue, 13 May 1997, George Herbert wrote:

> > A 32-bit sun4u port is probably only a little more work than the sun3x
> > port.  A 64-bit port, such as what the Linux guys are claiming, has
> > compiler and toolchain issues and is therefore much more difficult.
> 
> I think, but am not sure, that the 64-bit UltraSPARC gcc version
> that Sun had Cygnus do has now been rolled into the public
> GCC code and is available to anyone.

A sparc64-sun-elf gcc 2.7.2.2 does not build cleanly out of the box.  I
just tried it.  

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