GCC support for PPC64?

[Dan Burcaw]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:26, Stefan Bruda wrote:
> Quick question: how is the GCC support for PPC64.  I have ordered a
> dual G5, I plan to go with Gentoo on it so that I can complie
> everything from sources, but I wonder if I will thus obtain native,
> 64-bit code.  There is a vague mention of PPC64 switches in the GCC
> 3.3.1 manual but that's about all the information I could find on the
> matter.

We'll fully support PPC64 under GCC. Please keep in mind that IBM and
Apple has sunk a lot of resources into GCC, especially wrt PPC64.