Re: Building GCC 8 using 32-bit addressing on a 64-bit machine
Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-help <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:32:33 +0100
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 15:31, Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 09:59, Gordon Steemson via Gcc-help > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You need a relatively recent GCC, like GCC 8 or 9, to compile current versions 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 intermediate step. > > You can build GCC using Clang, it doesn't have to be GCC. Ah, but it looks like Mac OS 10.5 doesn't have Clang either! Wow, just stuck with GCC 4.2 :-)