On Mar 16, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Peter Restall wrote:

> The problem boiled down to the Microchip guys patching the GNU/Linux  
> toolchain
> in a way that assumed a 32-bit host architecture, meaning sign  
> extension and
> other bugs frequented the 64-bit builds.

Don't 64bit OSes continue to run 32bit applications?  Why do a 64bit  
build of gcc/etc at all?

BillW

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