x86-64 support for gas part I

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Tue Dec 19 19:56:00 GMT 2000


On Dec 19, 2000, Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> Name me a K&R compiler that supports 64-bit data types, which is
>> required for BFD64.

> I think Alexandre Oliva found a Sun compiler too.

This compiler:

acomp: SC3.0.1 13 Jul 1994 Sun C 3.0.1

does support 64-bit long longs, but it sign-extended 0x[8-f]XXXXXXX
instead of taking it as an unsigned type and zero-extending it.

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