[Rd] R 64 on Intel Mac check problem

[Bill Northcott]

On 27/03/2008, at 11:51 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Yes, the gcc-4.2 is known to be broken for x86_64 as you describe  
> above (or in fact it miscompiles a few other things, too).  
> Interestingly llvm-gcc-4.2 suffers from the same problem. That is  
> the reason why the 64-bit binaries are currently not offered.
> Switching to gcc-4.0 breaks other things on other targets, so there  
> is no universal (and maintainable) solution that I'm aware of.

Perhaps we could all file an enhancement bug request to release an  
updated version of the compiler.

Do Apple know that llvm-gcc is affected?

Bill