John Fine wrote: > I'm not saying I assume such choices have been made with enough > attention to architecture specific considerations that the difference in > the performance factor alone would make me disregard those threads. I'm > saying (and correct me if you are seeing something I'm missing) that > those threads are very specific to are architecture and case that are > quite different from the one I asked about. Yes, but I suspect the answer would be the same. The change to gcc is generic, and affects all targets. HJ, are you listening? Is there a separate 64-bit discussion list? Andrew.