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Old 18th December 2009
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Originally Posted by Oliver_H View Post
>IIRC the quality of the 64 bits generated code hasn't caught up with the i386 in all cases.

In common or regarding OpenBSD? They are using yet gcc2.95 as far as I know? I'm using 64bit especially for 4G of memory, so it's a must.
There are 3 versions of GCC in the tree, gcc2/gcc3 and as of late.. gcc4.

Both amd64 and i386 use a modified (..gcc-local(1)) version of gcc-3.3.5, a few older architectures use gcc-2.95.3.

In the future, some architectures will be switched over to gcc-4.2.1.. and then hopefully pcc.

GCC 4.2.1 was the last version released under the GPLv2, newer versions are GPLv3.

Here is the commit log for it:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=125562729215306&w=2
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