GDC release 0.23

David Friedman dvdfrdmn at users.ess-eff.net
Wed Mar 7 03:59:44 PST 2007


Frits van Bommel wrote:
> David Friedman wrote:
>> GDC now supports 64-bit targets! A new x86_64 Linux binary is
>> available and the MacOS X binary supports x86_64 and ppc64.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154306
>>
>> Changes:
>>   * Added support for 64-bit targets
>>   * Added multilib support
>>   * Updated to DMD 1.007
>>   * Fixed Bugzilla 984, 1013
> 
> While everyone is talking about 64-bit support, I haven't seen anyone 
> make an mention of multilib support. So I thought I'd ask: what does 
> that mean?
> 
> Great work, by the way.

Multilib refers to multiple architecture variants in a single GCC 
deployment.  Often this is 32/64-bit, but it would have been an issue 
before 0.23 for targets like ARM which have ARM and Thumb code generation.


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