[EXTERNAL] Re: 64-bit integer typedef's and -fpic lead to infinite loop and growing memory use in port to x86-32

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:42 PM Barnes, Richard
<Richard.Barnes@stratus.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, our OS is only a 32-bit OS. It's ABI is only a 32-bit ABI. As you imply, if we had a 64-bit OS, we would have more registers and more memory and would probably avoid this problem. Also, libgcc2.c is supposed to be built natively by the gcc-10.2.0 compiler you have just created.
>

Are you aware that you can build a 32-bit OS with x86-64?  You can try
-mx32 with
GCC on Ubuntu.  You will get more registers as well as IP relative addressing.


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H.J.