Christopher Petrilli wrote: > > Fredrik Lundh [fredrik@pythonware.com] wrote: > > > Has Python already been tested extensively on 64-bit machines ? > > > > python works perfectly fine on the AXP platform > > (and has done so since 1.2, at least). should work > > fine on any LP64 platform. > > > > (given good enough compilers, that is. we don't use gcc on > > AXP -- earlier gcc's didn't work well, and DEC's own tools are > > not only excellent, but they're also shipped with the OS) > > I think this is an important ote. GCC has some serious flaws in its 64-bit > support on various platforms (and I don't believe supports PowerII/III > and the 64 bit architecture). My experience has been that on AXP, PPC > and POWER systems that the vendor compilers are not only more reliable, > but substantially faster (on POWER, it's 50% or more in many cases). > > The joy with AIX compilers is in finding the right combination of switches > to get it doing what you want. Start with 'c98' rather than 'cc' and you'll > be much happier :-) Well, it does seem to compile linkable programs and I even got Python and my extensions all running. I would have liked to use the native OS compilers but the client has a rather strange attitude towards: the argument is to use GNU tools out- side the firewall and AIX tools on the inside -- no idea what this buys for him, but that's the reason why I'm stuck to gcc and a few undefined symbols in some libs :-( Thanks for your comments, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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