586 vs 686

[Ralf Corsepius]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> No, they're being made to be able to produce those for those reasons.
>> It is yet to be seen if it will be successful, and using the x86_64
>> kernel on i586 installs hinges upon this functionality so I recall.
> 
> AFAIK, Debian has been shipping i386 GCC with -m64 support for ages.  The
> drawback is that it's slower even when not using -m64 because some internal
> types (HOST_WIDE_INT and related stuff) are larger.

Not true. -m64/-32 cause gcc to switch between multilibs, when using a 
multilibbed setup. Unless something is broken somewhere, the internal 
types, library search paths etc. will be set up correctly.