Re: new triplet for x32 psABI?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 12 October 2011 01:03:19 Michael LIAO wrote:
> I am not asking a dedicated triplet for x32 to be used exclusively for
> x32 package build. I am asking additional triplet with enough details
> of execution environment (ABI definitely a necessary detail.) for
> package which relies on triplet to tell that. At least that triplet
> could be canonical and widely accepted for package really caring about
> that instead of forcing all package checking compiler options. If a
> package needs to support similar thing to mutlilib just like glibc,
> that new triplet will simiplifies their decision.

> gcc definitely is not that kind of package as it could be built to
> support generate x86-64, x32 and i386 code with the same package and
> need a runtime option to tell that.

except that if gcc doesn't change its default ABI output, it doesn't make it 
terribly useful.  you still need to specify the -mabi flag whenever you execute 
gcc, thus the tuple is just noise.
-mike

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