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Re: PATCH: Explicitly pass --64 to assembler on AMD64 targets
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I would be in favor of making the mode always explicit, as you suggest
> -- but I would prefer that we not embed the assumption that the
> default mode is 64-bit mode in x86-64.h so that we can continue to use
> that file for 32-bit default compilers. (Perhaps it could go in
> biarch64.h, which assumes 64-bit mode to be the default already?) Or,
> at least, make it easy for a 32-bit default to override x86-64.h.
Or, if GAS can be told which mode it should be in via directives in
its input (.code32/.code64?), then we could add something like
fputs (TARGET_64BIT ? "\t.code64\n" : "\t.code32",
asm_out_file);
to x86_file_start, and kill the spec hackery altogether.
zw