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modified x86 ABI
- From: David Taylor <dtaylor at emc dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:40:45 -0400
- Subject: modified x86 ABI
At EMC we have a version of GCC which targets the x86 with a non
standard ABI -- it produces code for 64 bit mode mode, but with types
having the 32 bit ABI sizes. So, ints, longs, and pointers are 32
bits -- that is, it's ILP32 rather than LP64 -- but with the chip in
64 bit mode.
Actually, pointers are somewhat schizophrenic -- software 32 bits,
hardware 64 bits.
Currently the changes are against 3.4.6 and are not yet
``productized''.
If this set of changes was cleaned up, finished, and made relative to
top of trunk rather than relative to 3.4.6, would people be interested
in them?
Put another way, should I bother to post them to gcc-patches (probably
3-6 months out) for possible inclusion into gcc?
Thanks.
Later,
David