From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GzUl3-0000oF-JA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:07:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBR95ewc006437; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:05:40 GMT Received: from sas4.stonline.sk (sas4.t-com.sk [213.81.152.137]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBR95eQe021768 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:05:40 GMT Received: from av3.stonline.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by sas4.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kBR95dtl004667 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:39 +0100 Received: from smtp.t-com.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by av3.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id kBR95dK8004648 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:39 +0100 Received: from amit.kihnet.sk (adsl-d141.84-47-28.t-com.sk [84.47.28.141]) by smtp1.stonline.sk (STOnline ESMTP Server) with ESMTPA id <0JAX003T3D9EIB@smtp1.stonline.sk> for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by amit.kihnet.sk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 976EE5C8FB0; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:25 +0100 From: Robert Cernansky Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Meaning of gcc64 USE flag To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.67.0 'Constance', compiled for Linux 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE X-Archives-Salt: 421e07f4-f9bf-4407-8a71-666c4c86dca1 X-Archives-Hash: 4792265c945d0796f3b9ccdfe5838961 Hi all, sys-kernel/linux-headers have gcc64 USE flag. Its desctiption says: "Use 64-bit kernel compiler". It's not quite clear for me what it means. Can anybody explain more? What are the pros and cons to switch it on/off? Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: hslists2@zoznam.sk Jabber: HS@jabber.sk -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list