RFC & patch: Rework MIPS command-line handling
Thiemo Seufer
ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon Jul 15 14:30:00 GMT 2002
Eric Christopher wrote:
>
> >
> > Err, different register sizes make the binary interfaces incompatible.
> > If this is the same ABI nevertheless, what ABIs would you call
> > different then?
>
> Ah yes, but that's an architecture difference here. Neither of the EABIs
> are restricted to particular register sizes. This should be a check in
> architecture, not ABI, at least IMO.
What if somebody wants to run 32 bit EABI on a 64 bit processor for
some (backward compatibility) reason, and also wants to use some
processor specific opcodes?
Thiemo
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