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Re: -taso support on alpha, again.
On 04-Apr-2001, Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:02:54PM -0500, Brad Lucier wrote:
> > About a year ago I proposed a patch to allow -taso support
> > on Alpha (with an -mtaso switch)
> ...
>
> I can't comment on the technical end of things, but every time this
> comes up I stare at -taso and I can not figure out what it stands for
It stands for "truncated address space option", I believe.
The option name comes from the cc/ld commands in
OSF / Digital Unix / Tru64 / whatever it's called this week.
> or how it could possibly relate to the width of pointers.
It doesn't. Pointers have the same width, it's just that
the upper 32 bits become padding bits rather than address bits.
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