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Re: Multilib and Linux.
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Multilib and Linux.
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:19:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: libc-hacker at cygnus dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
>
> > For example, we have 2 ABIs on Linux/Sparc64, 32bit and 64bit.
> > There are more like that. For one thing, I'd like people to use
> > the 64bit ABI on 64bit machines.
> I thought you were referring to x86 machines. It's certainly an issue
No.
> for families which have both 32bit and 64bit cpus.
>
We have at least 2 CPU families with both 32bit and 64bit ABIs today
for Linux and more on the way. I'd like to have a common Linux soluton
for all of them if possible. Anything we do can may affect egcs, glibc
and binutils.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)