On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Normally if you build gcc on a 64-bit host it will automatically be > configured to generate 64-bit code. > I don't have any x86-64 (int64) systems. Is it better to use 64-bit on x86-64 even with the larger memory footprint (because the programming model is better (more registers, etc))? Is there a 32-bit pointer (address space 64-bit programming model? Thanks! kevin