Re: Port of GCC to Intel IA-64 architecture (Merced)

tim@wagner.princeton.edu
8 Jul 1998 01:38:20 -0400

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From: tim@wagner.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 Jul 1998 01:38:20 -0400
Organization: Chemistry Department, Princeton University
References: 98-06-153 98-06-158 98-06-166 98-07-014
Keywords: GCC, architecture

Craig Burley <burley@cygnus.com> writes:
> What is still a problem, AFAIK, is that, internally, gcc makes some
> assumptions about the equivalency of sizes of integers between the
> host and target machines.


What is even worse, IMO, is that gcc will not warn about casting a pointer
to an integer *unless* you are on a machine where the sizes are different.


When I was maintaining a program that was (painfully) being moved
alphas back when they were new, this was very annoying, since I had to
rely on other people's compile logs instead of just using something
like -Wpointer-integer.


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