http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45511
--- Comment #6 from Ryan Mansfield <rmansfield at qnx dot com> 2011-06-16 23:00:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > EABI targets force 64-bit HOST_WIDE_INT, so the vast majority of users of > the ARM port won't hit this assert. If you really care about old-ABI > targets (and deprecation of arm-linux-gnu and arm-elf is long overdue), > maybe ARM should just force 64-bit HOST_WIDE_INT unconditionally. Thanks for replying, JSM. Looking at config.gcc, there still seems to be a quite a number of targets that still use the apcs-gnu ABI. Are you suggesting all of the non-EABI targets be deprecated, or just the arm-linux-gnu/arm-elf configurations? Is there any downside or reason why not to add need_64bit_hwint=yes for all arm targets?