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authorGerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>2009-01-07 00:50:01 +0000
committerGerald Pfeifer <gerald@gcc.gnu.org>2009-01-07 00:50:01 +0000
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install.texi (alpha*-dec-osf*): Remove note on 32-bit hosted cross-compilers generating less efficient code.
* doc/install.texi (alpha*-dec-osf*): Remove note on 32-bit hosted cross-compilers generating less efficient code. From-SVN: r143147
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@@ -2798,14 +2798,6 @@ the system header file @file{/usr/include/stamp.h}. If you install a
new version of DEC Unix, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
stamp.
-Note that since the Alpha is a 64-bit architecture, cross-compilers from
-32-bit machines will not generate code as efficient as that generated
-when the compiler is running on a 64-bit machine because many
-optimizations that depend on being able to represent a word on the
-target in an integral value on the host cannot be performed. Building
-cross-compilers on the Alpha for 32-bit machines has only been tested in
-a few cases and may not work properly.
-
@samp{make compare} may fail on old versions of DEC Unix unless you add
@option{-save-temps} to @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}. On these systems, the name
of the assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes