C++ compilers on Linux supporting 64bit architecture?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Sep 2 01:20:49 UTC 2007


Matthew Saltzman writes:

> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 05:23 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>>     In Linux Bo, if you want to write in 64 bit you load the version of 
>> Fedora 7 that is totally 64 bit. This is the f7 x86-64 distribution and 
>> different than Microsoft, you can download this free. Then you can 
>> compile in C or C++ with 64 bit. No need to cross/compile.
> 
> Just to be contrary, what would you suggest if Bo only has access to
> 32-bit hardware, but wants to create 64-bit binaries to run on another
> machine?

Unless he wants to build his own version of binutils and gcc, that targets 
64 bit ELF, he should simply build the software on the other 64 bit machine.


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