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From: Adriaan van Os
Subject: New (gpc-20060325)
Date: 28 Mar 2006, 15:20:50

Mirsad Todorovac wrote:

> Adriaan van Os wrote:
>
>>> I suppose this means you are running Tiger. What could I do to build  
>>> on old machines with Panther or Jaguar?
>>
>> I haven't tried gpc-20060325 with gcc-4 on Mac OS X 10.3. I guess it  
>> is possible, because I do have a FSF gcc 4.0 C compiler running on  
>> Mac OS X 10.3.9. However, for important new features like creating  
>> 64-bit applications, you would need Mac OS X 10.4 anyway, so there is  
>> no point in moving to gcc-4 on Mac OS X 10.3, as gcc-3.4.x is more  
>> stable at this point.
>
> I have built gcc-4.2 (experimental) on 10.3.9 and it has built OK.  
> Perhaps this was too much of a bravery, but I was chasing those new  
> optimizations for G5 machines. In fact, which -march and -mtune  
> parameters do you recommend for speed-demanding builds? (Of course,  
> while compiling the compiler itself, I am more conservative ...)

-mtune=G5, -mcpu=G5, -O3  
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.3/gcc/RS_002f6000-and-PowerPC- 
Options.html>

However, generating 64-bit instructions (which is something different  
than generating a 64-bit application) is not fully reliable yet (but  
you can experiment with it, maybe rebuild libgpc.a). Possibly also

--fast-math  
<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html>

(for non-IEEE calculations). You can also have a look at  
<http://developer.apple.com/performance/accelerateframework.html>.

>> Since I sold my old G4, I can not run and test Mac OS X 10.2 anymore  
>> (I now have a G5 with 10.3.9 and 10.4).
>
> I still have a G4 running in the lab with 10.2.8. I wonder if this  
> platform is considered obsoleted now? Sadly, even 10.3.9 is not  
> updated in development tools, and I don't think our institution will  
> provide for 10.4.2 ...

Apple policies, sadly.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os



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Waldek Hebisch New (gpc-20060325) 25 Mar 2006, 06:17:26
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