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Re: [PATCH] BFD and GAS support for x86_64-nacl target
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:13 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why is x86_64:32?
>> Do you need to support x86_64-*-nacl* target?
>
> I'm not entirely clear on what you're asking.
>
> For x86_64-nacl, x32 will be the primary model (and the only one supported
> by gcc and glibc, when that work is eventually done). ?So it just seemed
> right that bare x86_64-nacl-as default to --x32.
>
> But there are existing binaries from a past toolchain port (never
> integrated upstream, and not very good quality) that use ELFCLASS64, so it
> seems worthwhile that target=x86_64-nacl binutils know how to handle those
> too. ?Hence, target=x86_64-nacl and target=i?86-nacl builds have all three
> BFD target flavors.
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
You have i386-*-nacl* as assembler target. But I didn't see x86_64-*-nacl* as
assembler target.
--
H.J.