GCC support for PPC64?

[Greg Hamilton]

gcc is GPLed which means Apple must be making the source for their 
modified gcc available. I guess the Terrasoft guys would then take the 
source code and build it for PPC Linux. That might be a lot of work. Or 
it might not.

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 10:04  AM, bruce woller wrote:

> Stephan:
>
> Apple has provided a gcc 3.3 with G5 support via the Apple Developer's 
> Connection.  It comes as a .dmg package and installs under BSD.  It 
> can also be used as the compiler for the Apple IDE.  Now how this 
> translates to getting gcc 3.3 PPC I don't know.  Terrasoft must be 
> close because they are offering G5s as a VAR product with YDL 
> pre-installed.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:26  PM, 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.
>>
>> Any more precise information is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan
>>
>> -- 
>> If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as
>> it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
>>     --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
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