> On Dec 20, 2018, at 1:51 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:48 PM Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I may be missing something, but... why would you ask for a 32 bit compile?  
> If you want to create a kit that can run on old PCs, sure.  But for a local 
> build, the default makes more sense, whatever that is on the machine in 
> question.
> 
> In other words, it's hard to see why you'd have -m32 in the compiler switches.
> 
> One reason might be for code that's not 64-bit clean.
> 
> Tom

True.  But it's better and easy to fix such code.  Especially in SIMH which in 
some places actually requires 64 bit support, so making the whole thing 64-bit 
clean is a good thing.

        paul

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