Hi -
We are considering buying some AMD64 machines, but are presently standardised
on GCC 3.3. We're one of those places that finds a version that works for us
and sticks with it, so an update is hard to sell. People are especially leery
of the latest stable release - we like our compilers to have been out there
for a while, on the basis that they're more likely to have been exposed to
everything the users could throw at them.
Can GCC 3.3 compile 64-bit binaries that work reliably on AMD64?
What would the minimum recommended version of GCC be? (I'd be curious to know
even if GCC 3.3 is OK, for my own historical interest.)
I've tried searching gcc.gnu.org and with Google, but I'm having trouble
finding an authoritative answer. As one would expect, the current up-front
information on the GCC site focuses on 3.4 and 4.0.
Neil.
