Re: Building GCC 8 using 32-bit addressing on a 64-bit machine

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 09:59, Gordon Steemson via Gcc-help
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> You need a relatively recent GCC, like GCC 8 or 9, to compile current ver=
sions thereof.  The system compiler on Mac OS 10.5 is Apple's build of GCC =
_4.2_.  Building a version of GCC in the vicinity of 8 is a necessary inter=
mediate step.

You can build GCC using Clang, it doesn't have to be GCC.


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> > On Apr 28, 2026, at 12:48=E2=80=AFAM, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@star=
ynkevitch.net> wrote:
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> > =EF=BB=BFOn Mon, 2026-04-27 at 04:32 -0700, Gordon Steemson via Gcc-hel=
p wrote:
> >> I had been encountering a strange problem when bootstrapping GCC 8 in
> >> 64-bit mode on my 20-year-old Power Mac G5
> >
> > GCC 8 is really obsolete. Did you try to compile some newer version,
> > maybe GCC 13?
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