Re: gcc34 -- yikes!

On Aug 15, 2006, at 3:24 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> On 8/14/06, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2006, at 02:41, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone tried to install gcc34 version 3.4.6 on either PPC or
>> > Intel arch?
>> >
>> > I tried a port install of gcc34 on a single processor G4 and it
>> > took hours
>> > and did not complete so I control-C'ed out of it and cleaned the
>> > port rather
>> > than using it. On an Intel Mac Mini Duo Core, gcc34 actually failed
>> > (I will
>> > reattempt the install with a -v to get more verbose output and file
>> > a bug
>> > report).
>>
>> There have been reports on this list before that gcc3 is in  
>> general not
>> compatible with Intel Macs.
>
>
> I wonder why. Maybe a big endian / little endian issue? Or  
> something more
> complicated?

Something much more complicated.  gcc 3.x is not ABI compatible with  
Mac OS X on Intel.  In other words, in certain cases  it will emit  
code which will not work with the OS.

-Eric